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U.S. and other developed countries must develop policies to improve life for the desperately poor...
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Trump to 59,000 Haitians: you have 18 months to pack your bags
As of July 2019, Haitians living in the US — often for more than a decade — will lose humanitarian protections to stay here.
The Trump administration is telling 59,000 Haitians, currently living legally in the United States, to self-deport. But it’s giving them until July 22, 2019, to do it.
On Monday night, officials from the Department of Homeland Security announced that the government will stop allowing Haitian nationals to get Temporary Protected Status — an immigration program that allows people from a certain country living in the US to remain and work here while their home countries recover from disaster.
The decision ends a period of limbo Haitians have been under since May, when the administration announced it would extend Haitians’ TPS for six more months but strongly implied that Haitians should “get their affairs in order” and plan to leave when the six months were up.
Now, it’s granted them an extra 18 months. But it’s made the possibility that they’ll have to leave the US — after an average of 13 years in the country as of early 2017 — into a certainty.
https://www.vox.com/2017/11/20/16682924/haiti-tps-temporary-protected-status
As of July 2019, Haitians living in the US — often for more than a decade — will lose humanitarian protections to stay here.
The Trump administration is telling 59,000 Haitians, currently living legally in the United States, to self-deport. But it’s giving them until July 22, 2019, to do it.
On Monday night, officials from the Department of Homeland Security announced that the government will stop allowing Haitian nationals to get Temporary Protected Status — an immigration program that allows people from a certain country living in the US to remain and work here while their home countries recover from disaster.
The decision ends a period of limbo Haitians have been under since May, when the administration announced it would extend Haitians’ TPS for six more months but strongly implied that Haitians should “get their affairs in order” and plan to leave when the six months were up.
Now, it’s granted them an extra 18 months. But it’s made the possibility that they’ll have to leave the US — after an average of 13 years in the country as of early 2017 — into a certainty.
https://www.vox.com/2017/11/20/16682924/haiti-tps-temporary-protected-status