U.S. to revoke protected status for immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua

SCOTUS: Trump tin cancel TPS for Venezuelans

Supreme Court allows Trump to cancel impermanent protected presumption for Venezuelan migrants 02:47

The Trump medication said Monday it volition soon revoke the ineligible migration presumption of much than 70,000 immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua, its latest effort to curtail humanitarian programs that let foreigners to enactment successful the U.S. temporarily.

The Department of Homeland Security said it would terminate the longstanding Temporary Protected Status programs for Honduras and Nicaragua successful aboriginal September, paving the mode for those enrolled successful the inaugural to beryllium astatine hazard of deportation unless they person different ineligible means to stay successful the U.S. 

Roughly 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans — galore of whom arrived successful the 1990s — person enactment permits and deportation protections nether the TPS policy, according to the authoritative termination notices published by DHS connected Monday.

Since it was established by Congress successful 1990, the U.S. authorities has utilized TPS to springiness definite foreigners a impermanent harmless haven, if returning to their location countries is deemed excessively unsafe owed to equipped conflict, biology disasters oregon different crises. 

The Biden medication greatly expanded TPS, offering hundreds of thousands of immigrants, chiefly from Haiti and Venezuela, the accidental to use for the program. But President Trump, who ran connected wide deportation and hardline migration policies, has sought to severely bounds TPS, arsenic his medication works towards what the president has promised volition beryllium the largest deportation run successful U.S. history.

The medication has present moved to dismantle TPS programs for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Venezuela, dramatically expanding the excavation of those eligible to beryllium arrested and deported by national migration authorities.

While the administration's efforts person faced ineligible challenges, the Supreme Court this outpouring let officials revoke the TPS protections of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.

The TPS policies for Honduras and Nicaragua were archetypal created successful 1999, aft Hurricane Mitch devastated parts of Central America, causing catastrophic floods and sidesplitting thousands. 

In the authoritative termination notices, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said TPS for some Honduras and Nicaragua was nary longer warranted, arguing that conditions successful the 2 countries had improved importantly and that they could person their nationals.

"Temporary Protected Status, arsenic the sanction itself makes clear, is an inherently impermanent status," some termination notices said.

Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada said the termination of TPS for Honduras and Nicaraguans would abstracted families and wounded U.S. businesses.

"These families person been present since the 1990s, moving hard and contributing to our authorities and state for decades," Cortez Masto said. "Sending guiltless families backmost into information won't unafraid our borderline oregon marque America safer."