The Trump administration has given 2,500 Nicaraguans with provisional residency 14 months to leave the United States, announcing this week “that it will not renew the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation that has allowed them to remain in the country for nearly two decades,” reports the Washington Post.
At the same time, the White House “deferred a decision for the much larger group of 57,000 Hondurans who have been living in the United States with the same designation, saying the Department of Homeland Security needed more time to consider their fate,” writes the Post’s Nick Miroff.
“The Trump Administration’s cruel decision affecting deeply-rooted Nicaraguans in the U.S. is part of its effort to roll back TPS in order to advance its mass deportation strategy,” said Frank Sherry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund, in a statement after the announcement.
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 