Trump ends deportation protection for 57,000 Honduran immigrants – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] The Department of Homeland Security ended temporary deportation protection for 57,000 Honduran immigrants on Friday, forcing them to either find another legal way to stay in the country or pack up their lives and leave. DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced that the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for Honduras will officially end on September 9, 2019. Until then, Honduran immigrants on TPS will either have to change their legal status or leave the country. “The decision to terminate TPS for El Salvador was made after a review of the disaster-related conditions upon which the country’s original designation was based and an assessment of whether those originating conditions continue to exist as required by statute,” Nielsen’s office said in a statement. Honduras was added to the list of TPS countries in 1999 , after Hurricane Mitch devastated the country (along with Nicaragua, which was also added to TPS at the same time). Mitch was the deadliest hurricane in th...