The authorities will deprive the official status of refugees who have lived in the US for almost 20 years

The United States Administration has announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 57 thousands of Honduran immigrants who have lived in the United States for almost 20 years.

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The relevant decision of the Department of Homeland Security will enter into force on January 5 2020, reports Snopes.

Up to this point, Hondurans in the United States who have TPS must either return to their home country or find a way to get another legal status in the United States. Anyone who does not do this, since 5 January 2020, will be considered illegals.

The Honduran authorities have already expressed regret at the decision of the US administration, stating that they are not ready to take their citizens back.

The United States authorities granted special status to Honduran refugees in 1999, after a year earlier Hurricane Mitch had caused serious damage to this country.

In total, approximately 1,1 million Hondurans live in the United States in different statuses, who send home remittances for the total amount of about 4,2 billion dollars annually, which is almost one sixth of Honduras’s annual GDP of 26 billion dollars.

TPS has more 440 000 immigrants from Latin America and Africa living in the USA, but the Donald Trump administration has consistently canceled it. This is possible because the president must regularly extend protected status for refugees.

In recent months, the Trump administration has approved a decision to strip this status of immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan.

TPS is an immigration law program that allows the US government to grant temporary work permits and protection against deportation to immigrants, including illegal immigrants, from certain countries where living can be dangerous.

To be eligible for this status, there must be either armed conflict or civil war, or natural disasters, epidemics and “other emergency and temporary conditions” in the immigrant’s homeland.

The status of protection against deportation is temporary, but crises in many countries last for several years, with the result that some immigrants under this program have remained in the United States for decades.

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