New York City has joined a coalition of 13 local governments urging a federal court to block the termination of Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua, warning that ending the program would “irreparably harm” local communities.
The city signed onto an amicus curiae brief filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco, supporting a lawsuit brought by the National TPS Alliance and individual TPS holders against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ahead of a scheduled hearing in the case on Tuesday.
