The Trump administration has abruptly ended protection from deportation, known as temporary protected status, for all illegal immigrants in the United States from Somalia who had been covered under the government program, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem decided that “allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests,” according to a statement given to the Washington Examiner Tuesday morning, giving Somalis in the TPS program two months’ warning before Immigration and Customs Enforcement could show up looking for them.
“Temporary means temporary. Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status,” Noem’s statement said. “We are putting Americans first.”
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Somali immigrants have been accused of orchestrating a successful billion-dollar fraud ring that siphoned large sums of money from the U.S. government intended for statewide charities in Minnesota.
Republicans and the Trump administration are pushing for the denaturalization of any immigrant-turned citizen who is found to have stolen U.S. tax dollars and fraudulently obtained Minnesota welfare funds.
This story is developing and will be updated.
