The Trump administration has decided to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Somalis.
The Somalis must leave by March 17.
“Temporary means temporary,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News. “Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.”
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) told Fox News that 2,471 Somali nationals currently reside in America under TPS and 1,383 have pending TPS applications.
“Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests,” Noem said. “We are putting Americans first.”
Somalis first received TPS in 1991 due to the ongoing civil war.
President Joe Biden extended TPS for Somalis several times.
According to USCIS, the DHS secretary can “designate a foreign country for TPS due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately.”
DHS can terminate TPS when a country’s conditions improve, or the secretary deems it contrary to national interest, as Noem stated.
The move comes after DHS added more agents in Minnesota after the exposure of a $9 billion fraud scheme using government money involving numerous people in the Somali community.
The people used stolen money to fund their lavish lifestyles.
Then Nick Shirley uncovered a fake daycare fraud scheme in Minnesota involving Somalis.
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