Washington, United States.
The magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice appeared renuentes pit Enable that undocumented immigrants who have obtained temporary protection status (TPS) ask permanent resident free leaves the United States.
In a telephone hearing,judges heard arguments in the case of a couple of Salvadoran, protected by TPS, whose application for permanent resident (“Green Paper”) was approved by three federal courts of appeal and rejected by three others.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh said one of the lawyers representing José Sánchez and Sonia González that he had an “upward struggle” to argue that the law immigration allow yourself Customers administer the residence.
“We have to be careful when we interpret immigration laws as it is written, especially when Congress played, as in this case, a key role, “he added.
The President’s Government, Joe Biden, holds, in this case, the same position as its predecessor, Donald Trump, under which federal law requires those who green card applications must be “inspected and admitted ” In PThere.
In the United States there are more than 400,000 citizens from more than a dozen countries that received the award TPS, a situation that protects them from deportation and allows them to work and which is each renewed 18 months to Government criteria.
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The Tepezians, some of whom entered illegally United States of America are, for the most part, natives ofIt’s Central America and half of them have lived in the US for at least two decades,
Where the magistrates of SUPREME heard arguments today, Salvadorans claim that what is stipulated by Congress to adjust their status demonstrates the intention of lawmakers to consider them as “Already admitted” in the country.
On the contrary, the government claims that Congress created it TPS program cwith the specific purpose of granting temporary residence to persons in the countries affected by natural disasters or violent conflictsand that Tepesianos who entered the country illegally must leave the United States in green card applications A permanent resident.
The Government’s decision to defend against Supreme Court This appeal has already received criticism from lawyers at immigration and experts.
One of them is the lawyer of an immigration center of Georgetown University, Hannah Mullen, who considered on her Twitter account that Biden Administration had “entirely at its discretion” to change the position of the Department of Justice and they did not, as it did in immigration cases, such as “Public tax” or deferred action (DACA).
In December 2018, the Federal District Court in New Jersey vdismissed the applicants’ argument that the law provided that if TPS beneficiaries are married to American citizens or have children over the age of 21 who were born in the United States can obtain permanent residency at the request of their spouse or child.
The government appealed this decision, and the Third District Court of Appeal overturned that decision, adding to similar decisions in federal and district districts of five and eleven.
But the courts of appeal of 6 federal districts, the Eighth and Ninth adopted the opposite opinion, supporting the application for Sánchez and González.
Decisions of federal courts apply only to the territory of their jurisdiction and Supreme Court, which agreed to address the issue on January 8, could rule before July.
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TPS program, which now covers immigrants from 10 countries, protects them from deportation and give them work permits.
According to figures from Pew Center, TPS for The Savior, created at the beginning of 2001, currently covers 247,412 people, and the al Honduras, established in 1998, covers 79,290 people.
The names of El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan expire on October 4; those in Somalia and Yemen in September; South Sudan expires in May 2022 and Syria in September 2022.