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Bloomberg
36 minutes ago
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- Bloomberg
Trump to Spend Rare DC Weekend Harrying Senate on Tax Bill
This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation's capital. Every Friday, White House correspondent Akayla Gardner delivers a roundup of the key news and events in politics, policy and economics that you need to know. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here. President Donald Trump wants senators working through the weekend on his megabill of priorities from tax cuts to immigration. He's spending a rare weekend in Washington, too — skipping his usual trek to New Jersey — as he seeks to get fellow Republicans in line.
Washington Post
an hour ago
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- Washington Post
Trump administration ends legal protections for half-million Haitians who now face deportations
MIAMI — The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it is terminating legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, setting them up for potential deportation. DHS said that conditions in Haiti have improved and Haitians no longer meet the conditions for the temporary legal protections. The termination of temporary protected status, or TPS, applies to about 500,000 Haitians who are already in the United States, some of whom have lived here for more than a decade. It is coming three months after the Trump administration revoked legal protections for thousands of Haitians who arrived legally in the country under a humanitarian parole program, and it is part of part of a series of measures implemented to curb immigration.
Associated Press
an hour ago
- Politics
- Associated Press
Trump administration ends legal protections for half-million Haitians who now face deportations
MIAMI (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it is terminating legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, setting them up for potential deportation. DHS said that conditions in Haiti have improved and Haitians no longer meet the conditions for the temporary legal protections. The termination of temporary protected status, or TPS, applies to about 500,000 Haitians who are already in the United States, some of whom have lived here for more than a decade. It is coming three months after the Trump administration revoked legal protections for thousands of Haitians who arrived legally in the country under a humanitarian parole program, and it is part of part of a series of measures implemented to curb immigration. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal judge's order preventing the administration from revoking the parole program. TPS allows people already in the United States to stay and work legally if their homelands are deemed unsafe. Immigrants from 17 countries, including Haiti, Afghanistan, Sudan and Lebanon, were receiving those protections before President Donald Trump took office for his second term in January. President Trump is ending protections and programs for immigrants as part of his mass deportations promises. During his political campaign he said his administration would scale back the use of TPS, which covered more than 1 million immigrants. His campaign highlighted unfounded claims that Haitians who live and work legally in Springfield, Ohio, as TPS holders were eating their neighbors' pets. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and some Afghans have been told already that they're losing their TPS status. Some of the Haitians who benefit from TPS have requested asylum or other lawful immigration status that could protect them from deportation, although it is not clear how many could be left without any relief. 'This decision restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that Temporary Protective Status is actually temporary,' a DHS spokesperson said. 'The environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home.' The Department of State, nonetheless, has not changed its travel advisory and still recommends Americans 'do not travel to Haiti due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and limited health care.' Temporary protected status for Haitians expires on Aug. 3, and the termination will be effective on Sept. 2, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. DHS advised TPS holders to return to Haiti using a mobile application called CBP Home. Frantz Desir, 36, has been in the U.S. since 2022 on asylum, but he says he is concerned by the Trump administration's decision to terminate TPS. 'You see your friends who used to go to work every day, and suddenly—without being sick or fired—they just can't go anymore. It hits you. Even if it hasn't happened to you yet, you start to worry, 'What if it's me next?'' Desir says his asylum court date was set for this year, but the judge rescheduled it for 2028. Desir lives in Springfield, Ohio, with his wife and two children, and he works in a car parts manufacturing plant. ——- AP reporter Obed Lamy contributed from Indianapolis
Bloomberg
2 hours ago
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- Bloomberg
Why Is Trump Deporting Migrants to ‘Third Countries'?
President Donald Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants has raised concerns about one of his controversial deportation methods: sending noncitizens to countries other than their own — like South Sudan or Libya — with little notice. A sharply divided US Supreme Court on June 23 temporarily cleared the way for the government to resume deportations to so-called third countries. That decision paused a lower court's order requiring deportees get 10 days' notice of their removal and a chance to argue they would be at risk of persecution or torture in the country they would be sent to.
Al Jazeera
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
US sets deadline to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants
The United States government has announced it will terminate special protections for Haitian immigrants. In a statement issued Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that, starting on September 2, Haitians would no longer be able to remain in the country under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation. TPS allows nationals from countries facing conflict, natural disaster or other extraordinary circumstances to temporarily remain in the US. It also gives them the right to work and travel. The designation is typically made for periods of six, 12 or 18 months, but that can be extended by the DHS secretary. But under the administration of President Donald Trump, temporary protections like TPS have been pared back, as part of a broader push to limit immigration to the US. 'This decision restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that Temporary Protective Status is actually temporary,' a DHS spokesperson said in Friday's statement. Haiti first received the TPS designation in 2010, when a devastating earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless – more than a 10th of the population. The designation has been routinely extended and expanded, particularly as gang violence and political instability worsened in recent years. Since his first term in office, from 2017 to 2021, President Trump has sought to strip TPS for Haitians, even as conditions have deteriorated in the Caribbean island nation. Today, Haiti faces a protracted humanitarian crisis, with more than 5,600 people killed by gangs last year and 1.3 million displaced. Armed groups now control up to 90 percent of the capital, and food, water and medical services are extremely difficult to come by. The US Department of State has placed a travel advisory on Haiti, listing it as a Level 4 country, the highest warning level. Level 4 signifies 'do not travel', as there are life-threatening conditions in the designated area. The State Department advises Americans to avoid Haiti 'due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and limited health care'. The DHS statement, however, notes that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem 'determined that, overall, country conditions have improved to the point where Haitians can return home in safety'. 'She further determined that permitting Haitian nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to the national interest of the United States,' the statement adds. An estimated 260,000 Haitians have TPS. The statement advises that those affected can either pursue another immigration status or return home. But Haitians are not the only group to face the revocation of their temporary immigration status. In early May, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to revoke TPS for 350,000 Venezuelans living in the US. Later in the month, the high court also ruled that Trump can revoke the two-year 'humanitarian parole' that allowed 530,000 people to legally remain and work in the US. The affected humanitarian parole recipients included Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans, all of whom face instability and political repression in their home countries. Trump officials have also moved to end TPS for 7,600 Cameroonians and 14,600 Afghans. But critics note that fighting continues to rage in Cameroon, and in Afghanistan, the Taliban government is accused of perpetrating widespread human rights abuses.
