Strict law enforcement The United States plans to terminate the temporary protected status of 300,000 people

Strict law enforcement The United States plans to terminate the temporary protected status of 300,000 people. Young people who were illegally brought to the United States by adults when they were young were at a legal information machine in Los Angeles on September 30...

Young people who were illegally brought to the United States by adults when they were young were at a legal information machine in Los Angeles on September 30, waiting to obtain lawyer resources. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

According to U.S. State Department officials, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of more than 300,000 citizens from Central America and Haiti in the United States may soon be terminated. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is expected to announce this decision as early as Monday (6th).

The Washington Post reported that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke on Tuesday (October 30), telling her that the need to provide temporary protection to citizens in Central America and Haiti no longer exists because the environment and conditions there have changed.

Currently, some of those who have obtained TPS status have been working and living in the United States for more than 20 years. According to recent research data released by the left-wing organization and the Center for American Progress, the number of children born in the United States of Central Americans and Haitians who have obtained temporary conservative status has reached 275,000.

In accordance with U.S. legal requirements, the contents of Tillerson's letter have not been made public, but its contents have been confirmed by several officials familiar with the matter.

On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security will announce whether to extend Temporary Protected Status for approximately 57,000 Hondurans and 2,500 Nicaraguans. Their current temporary protected status is set to expire in early January next year. Although most of these people entered the United States illegally, Hurricane Mitch hit Central America in 1998 and prevented these people from being deported. Later, their temporary protected status was repeatedly extended due to natural disasters and instability in their countries of origin.

"Temporary Conservative Status" was passed by Congress in 1990. Foreigners whose countries of origin have suffered natural disasters or armed conflicts can temporarily reside in the United States to obtain safer protection.

Trump administration officials believe that the essence of this plan is to grant temporary protection to foreigners, not permanent protection, and therefore should not be used as a means for people to live in the United States long-term. Since the conditions that originally provided temporary protection to these foreign nationals no longer exist, this practice should have been discontinued long ago.

> Tillerson's approach reflects the Trump administration's advocacy for tightening immigration policies, including calling for reducing the number of immigrants and strictly enforcing immigration laws, in order to change the previous government's incomplete implementation of immigration regulations.

An unnamed US official said: "It should be said that this government is strictly interpreting the law, but the previous government did not do so."

The official also admitted that for the foreigners involved, many of their countries of origin still have problems with poverty, corruption and violence, but to deal with these problems, other ways need to be found.

Among these people, many have already bought homes and had children in the United States. If their temporary protected status is revoked, they will be deported. In response, the official said: "This is a difficult decision to make."

The official said: "This requires (the U.S. government) to work with Congress and these countries. We will work hard to find new solutions, and it is not a lack of compassion. However, for" Temporary Protected Status "We know exactly what we should do."

Some U.S. officials also said that tens of thousands of Central Americans and Haitians will benefit the local countries after returning to their hometowns, because these citizens will return with the professional skills, democratic values ​​and personal savings acquired in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security has not yet confirmed whether Temporary Conservative Status will be extended for these individuals and when this decision will be announced.

Most of these people are from Honduras, numbering about 200,000, and at least 30,000 of them live in Washington, DC. The Department of Homeland Security will announce a decision on whether to extend temporary conservative status for them by early January next year at the latest.

The Department of Homeland Security still has until Thanksgiving to decide whether to extend this status to 50,000 Haitians. Most of these people are currently concentrated in Florida. They came to the United States after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. The earthquake killed 200,000 people.

If the Department of Homeland Security terminates the temporary protected status of these individuals, they will be given a six-month grace period to prepare for their eventual departure from the United States.

Those who favor strict enforcement of immigration laws say whether they can continue to grant temporary protected status to Haitians will test whether the Trump administration is willing to strictly follow the text of U.S. immigration laws.

Some immigration law experts also said that if these Haitians are terminated from protected status in the United States, they can still go to Canada, especially the French-speaking province of Quebec, to apply for refugee status to avoid being arrested or deported.