Lawyers allege that Trump cannot revoke an extension that has already been granted, and that his decision is being driven by racial and ethnic bias.

Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the suit Monday, seeking to protect legal status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan immigrants who have fled their home countries.

More than half a million Haitians in the United States will face the threat of deportation in a few months, after the Trump administration revoked an extension of Temporary Protected Status that had been put in place by the Biden administration.