Washington (AP). Trump’s administration completed a temporary status of nearly 80,000 Honduras and Nicaraguans, which allowed them to live and work in the US quarter a century after the federal government’s reports come when the White House reaches more immigrants to allow the US to be able to implement.
These reports are part of the broader efforts of the current administration to make good campaign promises to perform mass immigrant deportations. This does this illegally afterwards the people of the country or those who committed the crimes that can be deported, but also by removing the protection of hundreds of thousands of people, many recognized by the biden administration.
Temporary protected status is a temporary protection that the Homeland Security Secretary can provide for people of various nationalities who are in the US, which prevents them from being deported and allows them to work. The Trump administration aggressively sought to remove protection, so more people can be removed.
The administration says the conditions have changed
The Homeland Security Department said in a federal register on Monday, a report that became official on Tuesday that the secretary Kristi noem viewed the country’s conditions in Honduras and Nicaragua. She concluded that after 1999 The initial solution has been sufficiently improved to make people currently protected by those temporary appointments to return home.
The department estimates that around 72,000 Honduras and 4,000 Nicaraguans in the US are a status that will now end in about two months. However, the TPS Alliance, which advocates immigrants related to these temporary protection, estimated that about 40,000 Honduras would be affected, as many had acquired a legal residence by various immigration channels.
The Alliance stated that it had filed a lawsuit against Noem and DHS in the northern California district on Monday. She said Trump’s administration’s decision was illegal.
The temporary protected status of both nationalities ended on July 5. Reports argued that the protection would be terminated 60 days after the notifications were officially announced in the federal register.
TPS is usually given when the conditions are difficult to return in someone’s home country. People who apply must register with the Department of Internal Security. And then they are protected from deportation and can work.
However, this does not give them a way to citizenship, and the secretary must regularly renew it, often within 18 months.
When their status is officially expired, the Hondurans and Nicaraguans, who are currently subject to temporary protected status, may be deported and their work permits will be terminated if they do not find another alley to stay in the country.
Critics say that “temporary” has become permanent
Critics say that one after another, the administration, especially the Biden Administration, essentially, the rubber stamped these renews, nevertheless, and the people who should be subject to a temporary status will remain in the US for many years.
Trump’s administration has already terminated TPS about 350,000 Venezuelians, 500,000 Haitians, more than 160,000 Ukrainians and thousands of Afghanistan, Nepal and Cameroon. Some of them, such as the Venezuelites, the Haitians and the Ukrainians, are looking forward to claims in the federal courts.
Another 250,000 Venezuelians are still protected by TPS until September, as well as thousands of Syrians. TPS Etiopians are valid in December. For the Yemeni and Somalis, 2026 In March, and for the Salvadors 2026. September
The number of people protected by TPS increased significantly during the Biden Administration. Nearly 1 million Venezuelans and Haitians were protected.
The National Coordinator of the TPS Alliance Jose Palma said that the announcement announced on Monday would affect people living in the US for almost three decades.
“They created families. Investments. The community that …. was done in an annual person’s inspection that showed … all its contribution to this country,” Palma said. “It’s cruel what’s going on.”
The litigation delayed the end of the protection
The temporary protection of both parties was initially granted in 1999. After 1998 Hurricane Mitch. Trump’s first administration tried to break the protection, but they both stayed in place after litigation.
Homeland security in the Federal Register wrote that Honduras was “witnesses of significant changes” within 26 years of the hurricane of Hurricane Mitch. “
“Honduras has made great progress, recovering from a hurricane destruction and is now a popular tourism and real estate investment place,” the department wrote. They argued that January. The Honduras Government has announced a plan called “Brother, Back Home,” which aims to help the Hondurases from the US deport and help find work.
Nicaragua Noem wrote: “Nicaragua has made great progress after the destruction of the hurricane with the help of the international community and is now growing tourism, ecotourism, agriculture and the leader of the renewable energy.”
Antonio García, Deputy Foreign Minister of Honduras, expressed disappointment on Monday.
“They claim that Honduras has foreign investment, tourism and its” Honduran Back Home “program and that there are conditions to return,” said García.
“They came to power with that and they do it for their voters,” he said.
Francis García has been living in the US for nearly 30 years and is a TPS beneficiary 25. Her three adult children were born in the US – the country she considers her.
“I feel sad, anxious and scared,” said Garcia, 48, who never returned to her country. “I’m very afraid to go back to Honduras. I can’t imagine it; I wouldn’t.”
Like Garcia, 57 -year -old Theophilus Martinez lived half of his life in the US, most of it – TPS protection. He came with anyone, but now has his own construction company, he is also a brokerage.
“We ask to take our good behavior and contribution,” Martinez said. “There are no conditions in Honduras to come back.”
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Salomon reported from Miami. Marlon González at the Honduras, a cooperation with this report.