Trump administration ends protected status for 60,000 Hondurans

[orangecrush]

The decision was called a "death sentence" by a labor activist, Florida Republican Rep. Ros-Lehtinen called it "tragic" and "wrongheaded."
by Suzanne Gamboa / May.04.2018 / 8:31 PM ET

The Trump administration is shutting off protections for people who have lived in the United States for nearly two decades and has started the clock on their forced return to violence-plagued, politically volatile and poverty-stricken Honduras.

The Department of Homeland Security announced it was ending the protection for Hondurans but has delayed the shutdown date until Jan. 5, 2020, about 18 months, sending the actual termination of the protections into the next presidential election year.


Hondurans are the latest group living in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status to be told their time here is up or nearly so. They were first allowed to remain in the U.S. legally and work here in 1998 when Hurricane Mitch wreaked havoc on the country. The hurricane killed 7,000 in Honduras and 11,000 in Central America. It caused billions in damages and deepened poverty in the region.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna871496


And the beatdown goes on.

[maveric]

1. Excuse my language but...

I HATE THESE MOTHERFUCKERS!

[orangecrush]

3. +1

[smirkymonkey]

4. +1000

Hope they can vote!

[dameatball]

2. It may be time to change the definition of war crimes.

I know that may sound dramatic, but when you continually see an organized effort on the part of a government to harm a specific segment of it's own population....what is it?

How many Hondurans have committed terrorist acts as opposed to white home grown Americans?

This is entirely his message....appeal to a large enough base of the Republican party through racist messaging that the party will be afraid to stand up to him. So far that has been successful.

I strongly believe that if Trump could sever ties with Puerto Rico he would do so.

[orangecrush]

5. He is following Putin's m.o.

like a blueprint.