Noem's coarse tweet comes back to bite her in blistering ruling on protections for Haitians

So the

Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristy Nome, posted this on social media late last year.

Swears included.

She posted, quote, I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. We don't want them, not one.

This was less than a month after the after the Trump administration had announced they were revoking the legal status of immigrants from Haiti to this country.

That's more than 300,000 people from Haiti who live and work in this country legally, uh, here under a legal designation called temporary protected status.

The Trump administration announced they were going to revoke that legal status.

And it was going to be effective at midnight Tuesday this week.

And just think about the practical impact of that.

This is a huge number of people.

We're talking about more than 300,000 people who are here in this country legally.

But at the stroke of midnight, they were suddenly and immediately going to become illegal.

They were going to become, therefore, in in the eyes of the Trump administration, in the eyes of ICE, they were going to become immediately eligible for arrest and imprisonment and deportation by ICE.

The sudden ending of that temporary protected status for more than 300,000 people

was challenged in the courts and in a buzzer beater.

Um, a judge in the case just headed it off.

Just one day before the deadline, the judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from doing what they wanted to do.

People from Haiti who are here under TPS will be able to continue to live and work in this country while the case is being fully litigated.

But I want you to know, the reason I'm think this is worth knowing about is because of the language of the ruling.

In the ruling on this case, the judge just absolutely excoriates the Trump administration.

This is from the ruling.

Quote, President Trump has referred to Haiti as a bleep hole country, suggested Haitians probably have AIDS,

and complained that Haitian immigration is like a death wish for our country.

Quote, he has also promoted the false conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating the pets of the people in Springfield, Ohio.

He stated, quote, why is it we only take people from bleep hole countries, right?

Why cannot we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?

Let us have a few from Denmark.

It is not a coincidence, the judge says, that Haiti's population is 95% black,

while Norway's is over 90% white.

The judge continues.

Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration enforcement system.

Her answer, turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight.

She complains of strains to our economy.

Her answer?

Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable.

She complains of strains to our healthcare system.

Her answer?

Turn the insured into the uninsured.

This approach is many things, in the public interest is not one of them.

The judge continues.

Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to non-white immigrants.

The judge says, quote, this seems substantially likely.

The judge actually includes a screenshot of Kristy Noem's tweet where she calls immigrants leeches and killers.

And then the judge ends her ruling with this.

Quote,

There's an old adage among lawyers.

If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts.

If you have the law on your side, pound the law.

If you have neither, pound the table.

Secretary Noem, the record to date shows, does not have the facts on her side, or at least has ignored them.

She does not have the law on her side,

or at least has ignored it.

Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds Twitter.

Kristy Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies,

and any other inapt name she wants.

Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program.

The record to date shows she has yet to do that.

And then so ordered, the judge blocks the Trump administration from turning more than 350,000 people

who are here legally

into undocumented immigrants overnight.

I should tell you that the Trump administration was gleefully,

gleefully, reportedly planning to send

ICE agents to Springfield, Ohio as early as this Wednesday morning.

More than 12,000 people who are immigrants from Haiti live in Springfield, Ohio.

This is an immigrant population that, of course, Trump and JD Vance have targeted before.

The administration was likely counting on the fact that there would be 12,000 people in that city who, you know, would suddenly be newly deportable as of Wednesday morning when all these new ICE agents were going to show up.

At least legally speaking, that will no longer be the case thanks to this absolutely blistering,

blistering ruling from a federal judge.

Watch this space.