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The country is still grappling with the devastation wreaked by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake.
RYAN KORONOWSKI APR 26, 2018, 1:16 PM
The Trump administration scored another coup Thursday in its effort to expel legal immigrants, as the Department of Homeland Security ended temporary legal protections for about 9,000 Nepalese immigrants who have been living in the United States since their homes were decimated by a 2015 earthquake.
On Thursday, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced the department was terminating the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for Nepal. Nepalese immigrants in the country under TPS now have to find alternative legal methods to stay in the United States or depart by June 24, 2019.
Following the 2015 earthquake, 15,000 Nepalese residents received TPS and now 9,000 remain in the United States. DHS was required to decide whether to cancel or extend this status 60 days before it expires, which would have been Wednesday. Wednesday was also the three-year anniversary of the earthquake.
Since the 2015 earthquake, conditions in Nepal have notably improved, Nielsen said in a statement explaining the decision. Additionally, since the last review of the countrys conditions in October 2016, Nepal has made substantial progress in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-admin-revokes-status-9000-nepalese-9e198933508d/
So whats next with this narcissistic racists Nielson person.....................if Los Angeles or San Francisco has a major earthquake-------no fucking empathy from this crime family...................your just fucked................look at what they have been doing to Puerto Rico..................not much...............wrong skin color
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)Shameful and disgusting
JI7
(89,260 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)They came here for asylum from the destruction of their land by severe earthquakes. Part of withdrawing their status should be a non-partisan examination if they have a place to return to in their country. That does not seem to be the case - from the link in the OP:
Nielsen is willing to send thousands of people back to a devastated country without the resources to help them. It is clear the Trump administration lackeys do not have one ounce of compassion among the lot of them.
JI7
(89,260 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)We shall see how Boulder, the most progressive city in the country, reacts to this shit.
blake2012
(1,294 posts)Determination of immigrant/refugee status
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)My BIL is on the city counsel, so I will have to ask him about this. See if he knows about it.
jcgoldie
(11,636 posts)Different somehow than Sweden... can't quite put my finger on it...