Chapter 999 in The Hourly Trump Administration Horror Show — refugees who’d been granted protected status in the US because the situation in their countries of origin is so bad might be deported now. I guess things are magically perfect so we can Throw Them Out.
Per the WAPO story,
More than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living in the United States under a form of temporary permission no longer need to be shielded from deportation, the State Department told Homeland Security officials this week, a few days ahead of a highly anticipated DHS announcement about whether to renew that protection.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sent a letter to acting DHS secretary Elaine Duke to inform her that conditions in Central America and Haiti that had been used to justify the protection no longer necessitate a reprieve for the migrants, some of whom have been allowed to live and work in the United States for 20 years under a program known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Tillerson’s assessment, required by law, has not been made public, but its recommendations were confirmed by several administration officials familiar with its contents. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
DHS has until Monday to announce its plans for roughly 57,000 Hondurans and 2,500 Nicaraguans whose TPS protections will expire in early January. Although most arrived here illegally, they were exempted from deportation after Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America in 1998. Their TPS protections have been renewed routinely since then, in some cases following additional natural disasters and resulting insecurity.
I can’t believe this. Administration spokespeople agree that conditions still exist that are life-threatening and which drove people to flee in the first place, and assert that they are oh-so-compassionate, and many of the refugees are now married and have homes and children, but oh well.
Let us pray that the angels of mercy descend upon the Trump Administration before several hundred thousand hard-working people are deported.
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Also, just so you know, there’s a movement afoot in Congress to evict the DACA kids as well, inspired by none other than Steve Bannon (natch) so I’m not to optimistic about their future either.
This sucks.