President Donald Trump’s administration ended legal protections for Haitians on Friday, making half a million migrants eligible for deportation to an island Trump has called a s--thole.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Haitian nationals in the United States will lose their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) on August 3, ending decades of extensions that granted legal status to those who fled the conflict-plagued island.
Haitians with protected status have been shielded from deportation in the U.S. since 2010. That is when an earthquake killed 220,000 people and further destabilized the Caribbean nation, which is the poorest in the Western Hemisphere and struggles significantly with both gang and political violence.
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