Trump administration will end protections for 50,000 Hondurans living in U.S. since 1999

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Nick Miroff May 4 at 3:22 PM

More than 50,000 Hondurans who have been allowed to live and work in the United States since 1999 will have 20 months to leave the country or face deportation, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Friday, the latest in a series of DHS measures aimed at tightening U.S. immigration controls.

The Hondurans were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in 1999, shielding them from deportation, after Hurricane Mitch slammed their country and left 10,000 dead across Central America.

Under President Trump, DHS has been eliminating TPS programs one by one, arguing they were never designed to grant long-term residency to foreigners who may have arrived illegal or overstayed their visas.

In the past six months, Nielsen has ended TPS for nearly 200,000 Salvadorans, 50,000 Haitians and 9,000 Nepalis, giving those groups a 12 to 18 months to prepare a departure or secure some other form of legal status.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-will-end-protections-for-50000-hondurans-living-in-us-since-1999/2018/05/04/c05c7676-4fc1-11e8-b966-bfb0da2dad62_story.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Now THAT's family values. NT

[sakabatou]

2. Grrr

[riversedge]

3. DHS ends protections for nearly 90,000 Central Americans

Cruel cruel

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/immigration-tps-honduras/index.html


DHS ends protections for nearly 90,000 Central Americans
Tal Kopan

By Tal Kopan, CNN

Updated 3:48 PM ET, Fri May 4, 2018


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Washington (CNN)Nearly 90,000 Hondurans who have lived in the US at least two decades could be forced to leave the country after the Trump administration decided Friday to end protections for the immigrants that go back to the 1990s, the Department of Homeland Security announced.


The move brings the total number of immigrants for whom the administration has decided to end temporary protected status in the last year to more than 425,000, many who have lived in the US legally for decades, according to numbers from US Citizenship and Immigration Services. The decision is expected to be announced Friday afternoon.



The Homeland Security Department's decision on Friday ends the temporary protected status designation for Honduras that was put in place after Hurricane Mitch. There are about 86,000 current recipients, according to USCIS's count at the end of October, and all of them must have lived in the US continuously since at least 1999.



How Trump's policies could worsen the migration issue he says he wants to solve


How Trump's policies could worsen the migration issue he says he wants to solve
They will have 18 months to either leave the country or make other arrangements to stay, if they can qualify for a visa some other way. ..........................................

[bronxiteforever]

4. Yet the Department of State has a travel advisory for Honduras

WARNING: Due to rising crime rates, along with kidnappings and the Honduras ability to respond to crimes, the U.S. Federal Government encourages US travellers NOT to travel to Honduras because the Government issued a travel warning.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/honduras-travel-advisory.html

We tell ourselves that we are a compassionate country
We value the hard work ethic of immigrants

But the truth is that we are not compassionate and that we really can’t be bothered with immigrants and their dreams or for that matter the American dream.

[treestar]

6. It should not be ended if the country is still unstable

The whole point seems to be people not being required to return to an anarchic mess. What difference it makes how long it’s been is not the issue.

[bronxiteforever]

8. well my point being we are a country willing

To send people who have been here for decades to a country that is dangerous for Americans.
These new levels of cruelty and barbarism by us is only equal to the toxic narcissist exceptionalism of many Americans who ape their narcissistic POTUS.

[cannabis_flower]

5. My husband

is one of those Honduran TPS holders. We are holding out hope that anything could happen.

Maybe Democrats can take back Congress with a good enough of a margin to be able to pass a bill allow TPS holders to get permanent residence or something. Or wouldn't it be something if we could manage to take back the House of Representatives and the Senate. If Trump and Pence are both impeached and the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (or whoever the Democrats have as Speaker) is sworn in as President.

Or we may have to move to Honduras for a while. Maybe we will sell the house in Honduras and move to some other country. We might have to live there until I start collecting Social Security. Uruguay might be nice. Or Nicaragua, Costa Rica or Panama. Or Ecuador.

[Jedi Guy]

7. I'm sorry you and your husband are in this position.

It really shouldn't be this way. This isn't what America is supposed to be about. I hope things come together and everything works out for you and all the others affected by this heartless decision.

[cannabis_flower]

9. Thanks

I'm just trying to look on the bright side. That everything is going to be okay

[Jedi Guy]

10. It can be very difficult to remember that in times like these.

I've noticed that things usually turn out okay, though. Be strong and know that you're not alone!