D.C. Latino History Issue-Week 3
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BREAKING NEWS: Yesterday a federal judge in California ordered a temporary halt to the Trump administration’s plans to end the TPS program for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan.
Then & Now: The immigrant experience
As part of our summer research, we examined how life has changed for immigrants since the 1980s and how the Trump administration’s policies could impact our local community.
Since President Donald Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security has sought to end TPS, arguing that conditions in the countries covered by federal immigration program have improved enough for immigrants to return home. In his Oct. 4 ruling, however, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen stated that Homeland Security had failed to provide convincing justification for revoking the longtime legal status from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, who are facing deadlines to depart the country or become undocumented starting as early as next month.
The plaintiffs, meanwhile, had raised “serious questions” about whether Homeland Security “was influenced by the White House and based on animus against non-white, non-European immigrants in violation of Equal Protection guaranteed by the Constitution,” Chen wrote in his ruling.
READ the story by Delia Beristain Noriega in this week’s installment of the 2018 D.C. Latino History Special Issue
Also in this issues:
- Timeline: Find out more about the making of D.C.’s Latino community
- The un-making of a Latino neighborhood: Read about Adams Morgan in the 1980s and how it’s changed
- Remembering Latino Adams Morgan: Quotes from longtime residents
- Thanks for reading. Come back next week when we’ll post more interviews.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
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