DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has decided to end a humanitarian program that shields about 5,000 Nicaraguan immigrants from deportation.
A senior administration official said late Monday that those immigrants, living in the U.S. as part of a program called Temporary Protected Status, will have until January 2019 to prepare to leave or apply for another immigration status, should they qualify.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke hasn’t made a decision about the fate of roughly 86,000 Honduran immigrants in the program, automatically extending their stay by six months. Those immigrants will now be allowed to live and work in the U.S. legally until at least July 2018, setting up a spring deadline to decide their fate in the program.
Ms. Duke on Monday called on Congress to find a permanent solution for the Central American immigrants.
TPS had been set to expire for both countries in the next few months. The long-awaited decisions are believed by immigration experts to signal the Trump administration’s overall approach to a program that protects more than 300,000 Central Americans from deportation—many in the U.S. for more than 20 years…
Labor unions and immigration advocates slammed the announcement to end TPS for Nicaragua, calling it inhumane. But the continuation, albeit for now, of the program for Hondurans, came as relief.”
-Alicia A. Caldwell, “U.S. Phases Out Deportation Protection for Nicaraguans,” The Wall Street Journal online, Nov. 6, 2017 11:06pm