Trump set to end protected status for another group tomorrow: Hondurans
This toxic mix of violence and impunity has forced hundreds of thousands of Hondurans to abandon home in recent years. Some of them have found refuge in the US under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) visa, which allows them to live and work legally in the country.
But this Friday, the Trump administration will announce whether it will extend TPS for Hondurans – or cancel the programme, as it already has for people from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Liberia and Nepal.
TPS was created in 1990 to protect migrants from 10 nations from deportation while their homelands recover from armed conflict or natural disaster. This includes 57,000 Hondurans who sought refuge after Central America was devastated in 1998 by Hurricane Mitch which killed at least 11,000 and left thousands more without homes, crops or jobs.
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Jonny Rivas, a spokesman for the Agrarian Platform, told the Guardian: “Cancelling TPS and forcing people back to a repressive country where there are no jobs, no land and no future would condemn them to total misery.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/03/trump-temporary-protected-status-hondurans
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