Trump management to end the deportation protection for Afghans

The Trump administration ends a program that offers thousands of people from deportation protection Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Homeland Security said on Monday that it would lose weight Temporary protected status For Afghans on July 12, the TPS program enables migrants, work permits and temporary shift from deportation if the US government determines that they are not sure due to war, natural disasters or other topics that they return to their home countries.

According to state statistics, over 8,000 Afghans were approved for TPS last year. TPS was last expanded for Afghanistan in 2023 and it should have expired in May, unless the Trump government decided to extend it.

When the Biden administration expanded the program for the country, the officials cited a humanitarian crisis since Taliban took over in 2021, including the collapse of Afghanistan's economy, human rights violations by the Taliban and the risk of terrorist attacks by a local Islamic state.

“This administration returns to her original temporary intentions,” said Kristi Noem, secretary of the home protection, on Monday in an explanation. “Afghanistan has had an improved security situation, and its stabilizing economy no longer prevent[s] You from returning to your home country. “

The Afghan TPS program is separate from the more permanent “special visa” immigrants “that were exhibited by Afghans who worked with the US military during his 20-year war in Afghanistan, which ended abruptly in 2021 and swept the Taliban through the country.

The TPS creation has drawn hard criticism from supporters.

“This decision is unsurpassed and will have long -lasting wave effects,” said #Afghanevac, a group that helps to relocate Afghans in one position to X.

The Trump administration also tried to reset TPS VenezuelaThis applies to more than 300,000 people, but a judge stopped this step in March and argued that it was “based on negative stereotypes”. The administration is Ask the Supreme Court to intervene.