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Eugene

(62,658 posts)
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 03:25 PM Nov 2019

State Department officials warned Trump not to revoke protections for immigrants

Source: Vox

Exclusive: State Department officials warned Trump not to revoke protections for immigrants

The Trump administration ignored them and ended Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and Honduras.

By Nicole Narea @nicolenarea Nov 7, 2019, 10:00am EST

Senior State Department officials and career diplomats repeatedly warned the Trump administration that taking away legal protections for immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti would put national security, foreign relations, and the immigrants’ American-born children at risk, according to internal State Department documents.

But Trump did it anyway — and concerns about the 2020 election appear to have helped determine the timeline for requiring immigrants to leave, according to the documents, which will be released in a report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday.

About 400,000 citizens of El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti have been able to stay in the US through Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a protection allowing them to legally live and work in the US typically offered to citizens of countries suffering from natural disasters or armed conflict.

President Donald Trump tried to end TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti, among others, starting in November 2017. He argued that conditions in those countries have improved enough that their citizens can now safely return.

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Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/7/20950689/trump-tps-temporary-protected-status-el-salvador-haiti-honduras-state-department-report-senate
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State Department officials warned Trump not to revoke protections for immigrants (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2019 OP
And Up is now Down and Black is White. Wellstone ruled Nov 2019 #1
Wonder if this report awesomerwb1 Nov 2019 #2
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. And Up is now Down and Black is White.
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 03:29 PM
Nov 2019

Moscow Don is just regurgitating Putin hand delivered talking points. Anything to create a division among the populace.

awesomerwb1

(4,567 posts)
2. Wonder if this report
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 03:42 PM
Nov 2019

will help the Temporary Protected Status cases in court right now.

Hope so for the benefit of the TPS beneficiaries.



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