The Trump Administration will end the temporary protections for more than 10,000 people from Afghanistan and Cameroon, launching -the launched for deportation in May and June, stated on Friday the officials of the National Security Department.
People lived in the United States legally under temporary protected state, which aims to protect migrants from being returned to countries that face natural conflicts or disasters. People with the protected state can also work in the United States.
The Trump administration has pointed out TPS as part of its wide repression against immigration. Trump officials say that the program is used inappropriately to allow people to stay in the United States indefinitely. Already this year, the administration has tried to cut off the Venezuelans of the TPS and has shortened the time the Haitians can have the protections.
The effort could face legal challenges. Earlier this month, Judge Edward M. Chen, a San Francisco Federal Court judge, temporarily blocked Trump’s administration to end TPS for Venezuelans.
In his decision, Mr. Chen said that the Trump administration’s efforts threatened to « inflict irreparable damage to hundreds of thousands of lives, families and livelihoods will be severely interrupted, the billions of the United States will cost economic activity and harm public health and security in communities in all the United States. »
Lawyers of the demand that challenge the Trump Administration’s decision on Venezuela said they would examine the last measure of Kristi Noem, the Secretary of National Security.
« We will examine the endings to determine if the Government fulfilled the TPS Statute to determine Afghanistan and the Cameroon are now sure to accept the return of its nationals, as required by the TPS Statute, » said Ahilan Arulanantham, who runs the center of the law and the policy of immigration to UCLA and is a lawyer in the event that he defies the decision of Trump to end the decision of the Trump Administration to end the decision to end the decision. Venezuelanans.
The Biden administration first protected the Migrants of Afghanistan in 2022, following the collapse of the government there and the taking over the Taliban. In 2023, they expanded these protections, saying that there was a « serious threat of armed conflict in progress; lack of access to food, clean water and health care; and destroyed infrastructure, internal displacement and economic instability ». The administration also expanded protections for Cameroon’s people in 2023, citing the continued conflict in the country.
More than 9,000 Afghans and 3,000 Camerounians had TPS at the end of last year, according to the Congressional Research Service.
On March 21, « the Secretary determined that Afghanistan no longer continues to meet the legal requirements for its TPS designation and, therefore, ended with TPS for Afghanistan, » said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesman for the agency, in an email.
Ms. Noem finished TPS for Cameroon earlier this week.
Julia Gelatut, an immigration expert from the Institute for Migration Policy, said that the measure would have spacious reverberations in the Afghan community.
« The revocation of TP for Afghans would be a strong investment in the country’s treatment of the Afghan allies who fought and worked with the United States government. Most Afghans in the United States have strong asylum cases based on their affiliation with the United States. This is even more true for Afghan women, » he said. « Revoking your TPS will promote thousands of Afghans in our bag asylum system, if you can find a lawyer with the capacity to support your request. »
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