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With the Trump administration set to decide next month whether to renew Temporary Protected Status for nearly 60,000 Hondurans potentially sending them back to a country they barely know government leaders and citizens in the Central American country worry the move could worsen economic and food insecurity problems, and even prompt some immigrants to return to the U.S. illegally.
The U.S. granted Hondurans the special immigration status in 1999 after Hurricane Mitch, allowing them to stay in the country without fear of deportation as long as the designation continued. TPS grants immigrants legal status in the U.S. they can work and must pay taxes because of conditions in their home country, such as civil war or natural disaster. Since the hurricane, the U.S. has renewed TPS for Hondurans 13 times.
The Trump administration has said it may revoke TPS for some countries, affecting as many as 300,000 people from the Western Hemisphere. In addition to Honduras, it currently extends to Haitians, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, among others.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has called on the Trump administration to continue TPS for the honest and hardworking Hondurans in the U.S. The U.S. is expected to make a TPS decision for Honduras in early November, 60 days before the current Jan. 5 expiration.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article180679161.html
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Trump does not like non- white people. He wants all non-white people gone from this country. He doesn't care if they are hardworking, pay taxes, etc. His xenophobia knows no bounds.
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)my husband has been on TPS for almost 20 years.
Fortunately, we recently found out that he probably hadn't been deported in 1995. He had always thought that he had been deported. When we got married, he was told by Catholic Charities and The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) told him that he was ineligible to have his status adjusted even if he was married to a US citizen. But he had a friend who had been deported and got a pardon or a waiver or something and we returned to CARECEN who gave us a list of lawyers.
She asked him for his work permit and called a phone number to check his number and asked my husband if he was sure he had been deported. She said she didn't find a record of his deportation and asked if he had gone before a judge. My husband said he had not, that the lawyer had brought a paper and he signed and they sent him back. She said it sounds like a voluntary removal and that that doesn't count against him. She sent off to check his record to make sure there are no problems. The only thing I worry about now is if we can get his status adjusted before his work permit expires at the end of July.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)He hates anyone who doesnt have white skin, his supporters equally hate brown people.
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)"...his supporters equally hate brown people.
My wife is a Republican. I am a Democrat. We adopted an abandoned Honduran girl in 1995 (cleft palate) and a Sudanese female orphan (club foot) in 1997 when we did mission/charity work in those countries. Both of these children are extraordinary dark skinned.
I don't know how I'm going to break it to my wife that she "hates" her own children...
Say what you want about Trump. (I do!) But Democrats don't have a monopoly on virtue.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)an (even more) destabilized Central America?
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Sorry for the rant.