Trump’s administration will terminate temporary protection for more than 10,000 people from Afghanistan and Cameroon, putting them on the right track for deportation in May and June, interior security ministry officials said on Friday.
Many of the Afghans affected by the decision had been allowed in the United States after the disastrous withdrawal of the United States from their country in 2021. Now, Trump’s administration could send them back to a country under the Taliban rule.
The Afghans and Cameroon lived in the United States legally under temporary protected regime, which is intended to protect immigrants to return to countries facing conflicts or natural disasters. People who have the protected regime are also allowed to work in the United States.
Trump’s administration has targeted TPS as part of its widespread repression of immigration. Trump officials say the program is used inappropriately to allow people to stay in the United States indefinitely. Already this year, the administration has tried to stop Venezueles from the TPS and reduce the time that Aitis can have the protection.
Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, head of Global Refuge, a refugee resettlement organization, said the mission of immigrants back to Afghanistan was “unconscious”.
“For the women and girls of Afghanistan, ending these humanitarian protection means ending access to opportunity, freedom and security,” Ms Vignarajah said. “Forcing them back to the Taliban rule, where they face systematic oppression and gender -based violence, it would be a completely unconscious stain in the reputation of our nation.”
The effort could face legal challenges. Earlier this month, Judge Edward M. Chen, a federal court judge in San Francisco, temporarily prevented Trump’s administration from the end of the TPS for Venezuela.
In his decision, Mr Chen said Trump’s management efforts threatened to “cause irreparable damage to hundreds of thousands whose life, families and living means will be seriously disturbed, will cost the United States and the United States.”
Lawyers in the lawsuit that challenges the Trump administration’s decision on Venezuela said they would consider the latest move by Kristi Noem, the Minister of Internal Affairs.
“We will carefully look at the finishes to determine whether the government has complied with the TPS statutes for the determination of Afghanistan and Cameroon is now safe to accept the yields of their nationals, as required by the TPS statutes,” said Ahilan Arulantham, who organizes the Center for the Center. Trump’s administration case for the TPS retirement for TPS for Venezuel.
Biden’s administration protects immigrants from Afghanistan for the first time in 2022, after the government collapsed there and the Taliban acquisition. In 2023, they expanded these protections, saying that there was “a serious threat raised by the ongoing armed conflict, lack of access to food, clean water and health care and destroyed infrastructure, internal displacement and economic instability.”
Biden’s administration also expanded the protection of people from Cameroon in 2023, citing continuing conflicts in the country. Ms. Noem finished her earlier this week.
Gustavo Torres, executive director of Casa de Maryland, a defense of immigrants, said in a statement that Cameroon nationals were unable to return and reside safely in their country due to armed conflict. “Continuing violence, human rights violations and humanitarian crises in Cameroon continue to place its citizens at serious danger,” he said.
More than 9,000 Afghans and 3,000 cameras had TPS at the end of last year, according to the Congress Research Service.
On March 21, “the secretary found that Afghanistan no longer continues to meet the legal requirements for the definition of TPS and thus ended the TPS for Afghanistan,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a representative of the organization.
Julia Gelatt, an immigration expert at the Institute of Migration Policy, said the move would have extensive impact on the Afghan community.
“The recall of TPS for Afghans would be a strong reversal to the treatment of the country of Afghan allies who fought and worked alongside the US government, most Afghans in the US have strong asylum cases based on their American relationship.” The recall of their TPS will push them to their system.
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