The Trump administration will terminate temporary deportation protections for 5,000 Ethiopian immigrants in the US, it said in a Federal Register notice released Friday.
A Temporary Protected Status designation for the country was set to expire Friday. The termination will be effective Feb. 10.
The TPS program allows immigrants to remain in the US for up to 18 months when the Department of Homeland Security determines it’s unsafe to return to their home country. The program also allows eligible immigrants to apply for employment authorization while a designation is in effect.
TPS has been at the center of Trump administration efforts to dismantle a swath of humanitarian protections covering hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the US. Termination decisions have been met with repeated legal challenges from immigrant advocates.
Although intense armed conflict has unfolded involving ethnic groups in Ethiopia, DHS said in the Federal Register notice that there had been sufficient security improvements to remove the protections.
DHS on Friday also said it was terminating a family reunification parole process for immigrants from Colombians, Cubans, Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, Haitians, Hondurans, and Salvadorans effective Dec. 15. Active parole grants will expire 30 days after that.
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