Trump administration to end provisional residency protection for 50,000 Haitians

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Source: Washington Post

By Karen DeYoung and Nick Miroff November 20 at 7:46 PM

The Trump administration has given more than 50,000 Haitians with provisional legal residency in this country 18 months to leave, announcing Monday that it will not renew the Temporary Protected Status that has allowed them to remain here for more than seven years.

The decision came after the Department of Homeland Security determined that the extraordinary conditions justifying their presence following a 2010 earthquake no longer exist, according to a senior administration official.

Haitian government officials, and a number of Florida lawmakers, had asked that the Haitians be allowed to remain, citing ongoing economic and political difficulties in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, as well as a still-raging cholera epidemic.

But the official, one of several authorized to brief reporters, said that Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke, after extensive research and input from U.S. and Haitian government officials, as well as experts, had assessed overall that extraordinary temporary conditions that justified the designation in the first place, had sufficiently improved such that they no longer prevent nationals of Haiti from returning.

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