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发帖数: 29576 | 1 Homeland Security ends protected status for Haitians with an 18-month delay
The Trump administration will terminate a humanitarian status extended to
roughly 59,000 Haitians living in the United States, but with an 18-month
delay, the Homeland Security Department announced Monday evening.
Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke faced a Thanksgiving Day deadline to decide
whether to renew so-called temporary protected status for Haitians, who
were initially granted that status after a destructive earthquake hit the
island nation in 2010.
After consulting U.S. and Haitian officials, Duke decided that on-the-ground
conditions in Haiti no longer warranted the protection granted under the
program. The move means that the Haitians given temporary protected status,
or TPS, may remain until July 22, 2019, but could face deportation after
that date.
The decision came after “an intense interagency review process” that also
took into account Haiti’s ability to repatriate tens of thousands of people
, a senior administration official said on a background call with reporters.
Temporary protected status allows nationals of a country beset by a natural
disaster or armed conflict to remain in the United States and apply for work
permits, but the designation needs to be renewed by the DHS secretary every
six to 18 months. In the past such renewals have been granted routinely.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/20/homeland-security-haitians-haiti-
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