A refugee advocacy group is suing the Trump administration to preserve removal protections for several thousand Syrians in the US, the latest court fight over government moves to strip humanitarian relief from hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals.
The Department of Homeland Security announced last month it was terminating a Temporary Protected Status designation covering more than 6,000 Syrian nationals effective Nov. 21.
The agency found that circumstances in Syria no longer justified the relief after the end of a more than decade-long civil war. Even if extraordinary conditions that would prevent a safe return persist in the country, DHS ...
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