Haitian Red Cross volunteer Antoine Macul, left, speaks with Napoleon Delfe, 6, at a First Aid Post in Pesionville in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2010. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake had hit Haiti. On Wednesday, an appeals court paused the deportation of Haitians with Temporary Protected Status at least until Monday. Photo by Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross/UPI | License Photo
July 23 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending protections for Haitian immigrants living in the United States for a few more days.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June said that President Donald Trump's administration could deny Temporary Protected Status to Haitian and Syrian immigrants. That will allow the administration to deport more than 300,000 Haitian immigrants.
The TPS protections were set to end Friday.
But a panel of judges from the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied the administration's request to stay a lower court that postponed the TPS status revocations until court challenges were complete. The appeals court blocked the move through July 27.
