The Department of Homeland Security announced this week that it would end temporary residency status for Nicaraguans. The decision comes amid an apparent bid by the Trump administration to return escapees of humanitarian disaster back to their home countries, a move that immigrant advocates warn could provoke humanitarian crisis.
DHS's decision, issued late Monday, means that the government is stripping legal residency for more than 2,000 Nicaraguans. It has also delayed its decision on whether to renew residency for more than 50,000 Honduran recipients for six months.
Temporary Protected Status is a designation, created with bipartisan congressional support in 1990, that allows escapees from political and environmental disaster abroad to remain in the United States. Altogether, there are well over 300,000 TPS recipients living in the U.S. hailing from 10 TPS designated countries—not just in Central American countries like Nicaragua and Honduras, but also places farther afoot like Syria and South Sudan.
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Photo: Children hold posters asking the federal government to renew Temporary Protected Status during a press conference about TPS for people from Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador at the office of the Haitian Women of Miami on November 6th, 2017, in Miami, Florida.
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