DHS/IMMIGRATION: “The White House lost an internal debate this week over whether to extend humanitarian protections for immigrants living in the U.S., when the acting chief of the Department of Homeland Security refused to end them, people familiar with the deliberations said.
At issue is the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, which gives safe harbor in the U.S. to people from a range of countries affected by natural disasters and other strife.
Under past administrations, the programs for multiple countries were routinely renewed. For three Central American countries, the renewals have enabled hundreds of thousands of people to live in the U.S. with the government’s permission for the better part of two decades.
White House officials were pushing the Department of Homeland Security to announce this week that they were ending those protections for Honduras and Nicaragua, people familiar with the discussions said.”
-Alicia A. Caldwell and Laura Meckler, “Homeland Security Chief Resisted White House Pressure on Immigrant Program,” The Wall Street Journal online, Nov. 9, 2017 12:11pm