News Alert: Over 50,000 Hondurans who were allowed to live and work in U.S. since 1999 must leave, according to DHS memos

The Department of Homeland Security will terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of Hondurans who were shielded from deportation in 1999 after Hurricane Mitch struck their country. DHS will give them until January 2020 to leave the United States or find another way to obtain legal residency. In the past six months, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has canceled TPS protections for 200,000 Salvadorans, 50,000 Haitians and 9,000 Nepalese, arguing that the short-term emergencies that prompted the designation no longer exist in those countries. Critics of the Trump administration call the moves short-sighted and inhumane, noting the TPS recipients have tens of thousands of U.S-born children. Honduras is too violent and unstable to absorb so many returnees, they say, and the country is already a major source of illegal immigration to the United States.

Democracy Dies in Darkness     News Alert May 4, 2:43 PM     Over 50,000 Hondurans who were allowed to live and work in U.S. since 1999 must leave, according to DHS memos The Department of Homeland Security will terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of Hondurans who were shielded from deportation in 1999 after Hurricane Mitch struck their country. DHS will give them until January 2020 to leave the United States or find another way to obtain legal residency. In the past six months, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has canceled TPS protections for 200,000 Salvadorans, 50,000 Haitians and 9,000 Nepalese, arguing that the short-term emergencies that prompted the designation no longer exist in those countries. Critics of the Trump administration call the moves short-sighted and inhumane, noting the TPS recipients have tens of thousands of U.S-born children. Honduras is too violent and unstable to absorb so many returnees, they say, and the country is already a major source of illegal immigration to the United States. Read more » Advertisement You received this email because you signed up for news alerts from The Washington Post. Manage my newsletters and alerts | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy | Help ©2018 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071