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Trump has revoked deportation protection for 60,000 Haitians. They have until 2019 to go back to Haiti.
These Haitians temporarily moved to the US after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, but were protected from being deported. That protection is being rescinded by the Trump administration.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/dhs-temporary-protected-status-haiti/index.html
These Haitians temporarily moved to the US after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, but were protected from being deported. That protection is being rescinded by the Trump administration.
In May, former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who now serves as White House chief of staff, extended the protection from deportation for Haitians for an additional six months. When Kelly temporarily extended the status for Haiti, which had received the designation after an earthquake devastated the island in 2010, he warned the nearly 58,700 recipients living in America to prepare their affairs for going back to Haiti or to find another way to apply to stay in the United States.
"Based on all available information, including recommendations received as part of an inter-agency consultation process, Acting Secretary Duke determined that those extraordinary but temporary conditions caused by the 2010 earthquake no longer exist," a statement from the Department of Homeland Security said. "Thus, under the applicable statute, the current TPS designation must be terminated."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/dhs-temporary-protected-status-haiti/index.html