The government of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to revoke this Thursday a migration benefit that grants A temporary status of legality to more than half a million Haitians In the country, a community to which the Republican leader attacked in the last presidential campaign,
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, has announced the decision to revoke the extension that President Joe Biden had granted to the citizens of Haiti the temporary protection status (TPS). Noem, who has blamed Biden as “to tie the hands of the Trump government” for extending the permission “more time than is necessary or can be justified” a benefit that, as the Republican said, has “exploited and exploded and abused for decades. “
The TPS is a temporary status that the US government can grant to the citizens of a country that is going through an armed conflict or an emergency situation. With the benefit, people can live legally, without fear of deportation. After this Thursday’s decision, more than 520,000 Haitian migrants will lose their current legal status and therefore, without The TPS for Haiti (which will overcome on August 3, 2025)you become subjects susceptible to deportation.
Biden had decided to extend the temporary protection status for Haiti argued that the country experiences a series of “humanitarian challenges” including violence, food shortages and lack of access to health or water services. The decision of the new US president comes weeks after his administration also announced the.
Another demand for Donald Trump’s government
Two organizations in defense of the rights of migrants in the United States filed a lawsuit against the Donald Trump government for their decision to revoke a migratory benefit that grants a legal status to thousands of Venezuelans in the country.
The lawsuit, presented in a Federal Court in California, argues that the government’s decision to finish the temporal protection status (TPS) for Venezuelans is illegal and motivated by “racist” discrimination against migrants in this country. “Secretary Noem and President Trump have repeatedly made comments by attacking migrants who are not white the TPS beneficiaries in particular,” said the judicial document.
Specifically, organizations’ lawyers cite an interview that the official gave in the Fox News chain where Venezuelan migrants who have TPS such as “because it”. “The decision of the Trump administration to cancel and terminate the TPS for Venezuela represents a great departure from the promise of our nation to provide equal protection,” said Harold Solis, NGO lawyer Make The Road New Yorkwhich filed the lawsuit, in a statement.
The Biden government decided to grant TPS for the people of Venezuela in 2021 and 2023, ensuring that the “humanitarian emergency” through which Venezuela is going through prevents migrants from this country in the US in the USA. Before leaving the White House, Biden decided to extend the TPS until 2026, which Noem, head of National Security, a few days after confirmation in the post. The benefit for people who hosted in 2023 expires in April, and those of 2021, in September.
As part of his policy of, Trump defrost the ties with Caracas and sent a representative of his government to meet with Nicolás Maduro at the beginning of the month. The result of this meeting was the sending of two deportation flights with almost 200 people from Texas to Caracas and the release of six Americans in Venezuela.
In turn, the Republican Government has assured Thursday that the transfer of 177 migrants held at the Guatánamo Military Base has begun, Cuba, towards Venezuela. In a publication in the social network ‘X’, the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE) has told that an American plane has transferred Venezuelan migrants from the base to Honduras, where they were “collected by the Venezuelan government and taken to their country of origin “.
