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The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries.

The Trump administration has revoked an extension of deportation protections that the previous Biden administration granted to more than 600,000 Venezuelans already in the United States.

The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, on Tuesday rescinded an 18-month extension of the temporary protected status (TPS) program, which allows for people to temporarily stay in the US if they cannot return safely to their home country.

The federal program is available for people fleeing ongoing armed conflict, environmental disasters, or extraordinary and temporary conditions. The designation gives people the legal authority to be in the country, but does not provide a long-term path to US citizenship.

Former president Joe Biden’s homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, issued the extension earlier in January before Donald Trump took office, citing “the severe humanitarian emergency the country continues to face due to political and economic crises”.

Noem told Fox News: “Before he left town, Mayorkas signed an order that said for 18 months, they were going to extend protection to people on Temporary Protected Status, which meant they were going to be able to stay here and violate our laws for another 18 months.

“We stopped that.”

Noem’s rollback of the extension requires her to make a decision on protections expiring in April by Saturday or have them automatically renew for six months, according to the New York Times, citing a copy of the decision.

“By taking this action, Secretary Noem is throwing over 600,000 into a state of ongoing bureaucratic limbo,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, told the paper.

People will no longer have any certainty as to whether they can stay in the country legally through the end of the year.”

About a million immigrants from 17 countries are protected by the program, including people from Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Sudan and Lebanon.

Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance, suggested during the election campaign that they would scale back the use of TPS and policies granting temporary status as they pursued a campaign pledge of mass deportations. During his first term in office, Trump tried to end most temporary protected status enrollment but was stymied by federal courts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/protected-status-venezuelans-ends-trump-noem

Deport them. Which kind yeye reason them dey give for staying in u.s . No be humans like them vote in good government for u.s?

Trump is very determined to rid America of all nuisance!

Build your country!

Creamypie:
Deport them. Which kind yeye reason them dey give for staying in u.s . No be humans like them vote in good government for u.s?

What’s the make of your television and what cable TV subscription you got on it?

Ahero:
This is the way to go if you truly put your own people first

Which fvckin people you talking about?

The all immigrants?

Are the real indigenes living on a platter of gold!

Now, you have to put yourself in the shoes of the indigenes and getting to know the thieves who stole your land are enacting immigration laws.

Did the fvckin founders get a visa to the land? As a matter of hardcore fact! Africans got to North America first before Columbus. They will never tell you that history or showcase it on cable TV

What people you talking about? The enslaved Africans or the morafvckin Caucasians who massacred the indigenes and stole the land.

CoronaVirusPro:
What’s the make of your television and what cable TV subscription you got on it?

nor mind am,as if anything like credible election dey Venezuela.. Maduro the dictator nor go comot Dia till he die

CoronaVirusPro:
Which fvckin people you talking about?

The all immigrants?

Are the real indigenes living on a platter of gold!

Now, you have to put yourself in the shoes of the indigenes and getting to know the thieves who stole your land are enacting immigration laws.

Did the fvckin founders get a visa to the land? As a matter of hardcore fact! Africans got to North America first before Columbus. They will never tell you that history or showcase it on cable TV

What people you talking about? The enslaved Africans or the morafvckin Caucasians who massacred the indigenes and stole the land.

Don't mind the primitive minded dolt.

They sit in an echo chamber, and regurgitate soundbites they hear when they are drinking Champion beer.

Cowardigbos:
Trump is very determined to rid America of all nuisance!

Build your country!

Why didn't Trump’s Grandparent stay in his own country to build it?

This is getting bad actually

Ahero:
This is the way to go if you truly put your own people first

It's total evil