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From the New York Times: The Trump administration will end temporary protections for more than 10,000 people from Afghanistan and Cameroon, putting them on track for deportation in May and June, Department of Homeland Security officials said on Friday.

Many of the Afghans affected by the decision had been allowed into the United States after the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from their country in 2021. Now, the Trump administration could send them back to a country under Taliban rule.

The Afghans and Cameroonians had been living in the United States legally under Temporary Protected Status, which is meant to shield migrants from being returned to countries facing conflict or natural disasters. People who have the protected status are also allowed to work in the United States.

The Trump administration has targeted T.P.S. as part of its broad crackdown on immigration. Trump officials say the program is being used improperly, to allow people to stay in the United States indefinitely. Already this year, the administration has tried to cut off Venezuelans from T.P.S. and shortened the time that Haitians can have the protections.

During the Biden administration’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, the U.S. military reportedly evacuated more than 82,000 Afghans, who were frantic to flee the country as the Taliban was taking over.

Many of them were flown to other countries, but thousands were also brought to the United States.

According to a Fox News report, over 14,000 Afghans and 7,000 Cameroonians are expected to lose their TPS protections.

The Biden administration renewed TPS protections for Afghans in 2023.

Afghan TPS protections end in May and Cameroonian protections in June. At that time, foreign nationals will be eligible for deportation.

Pro-immigrant groups are blasting the decision.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, wrote, “WHOA. Trump is aiming to strip Temporary Protected Status from thousands of AFGHANS, at a time when the Taliban is fully in control of the country and carrying out total oppression. If any country deservers TPS, it’s obviously Afghanistan! We’re going to send women back there?”

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“Ending TPS for Afghans is a betrayal. Their sacrifices weren’t temporary—their protection shouldn’t be either,” the Afghan-American Foundation declared.

CAIR condemned the news as “shameful.”

And the Migrant Policy Institute declared, “Revoking TPS for Afghans would be a stark reversal in the US’s treatment of Afghan allies who fought & worked alongside the US govt. Most Afghans (especially Afghan women) in the US have strong asylum cases based on their US affiliation.”

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