Overview
- Four Somali nationals and the groups African Communities Together and Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans filed the suit in federal court in Boston.
- The complaint argues DHS violated administrative law and points to President Trump’s past derogatory remarks about Somalis as evidence of bias.
- Outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced in January that TPS for Somalia would end, saying conditions had improved sufficiently for return.
- According to DHS, 1,082 Somalis currently hold TPS and 1,383 have pending applications, putting work authorization and protection from deportation at risk if the policy takes effect.
- DHS is pursuing broader rollbacks of TPS designations, with the administration planning a U.S. Supreme Court appeal after a D.C. Circuit panel left in place a block on ending Haiti’s TPS and signaling efforts to end protections for Syrians.