The Department of Homeland Security is eliminating a temporary deportation shield for more than 200 immigrants from South Sudan.
A Temporary Protected Status designation for the country will expire effective January 5, according to a Federal Register notice released Wednesday. The designation automatically renewed for six months earlier this year after DHS failed to issue a decision before a statutory deadline.
The Trump administration has made removing those humanitarian protections a key piece of its immigration agenda, terminating TPS designations shielding hundreds of thousands of people from deportation.
DHS said that 232 people from the country currently hold TPS protections ...
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