Nearly 60,000 Hondurans are told to leave or be deported after 19 years in the US, as Trump administration ends the protection scheme for the country
57,000 Honduras citizens will need to leave by January 1 2020 or be deported
The Trump administration has ended Temporary Protection Status for Honduras
Nearly 60,000 people have been in the US since Hurricane Mitch in 1998
The hurricane killed more than 11,000 and caused more than $5billion in damage
By HANNAH MOORE
DAILYMAIL.COM
5 May 2018
Tens of thousands of Honduras citizens – who have been living in the United States since 1998, have been told to leave or be deported.
About 57,000 people from the Central American country are currently living in the US under Temporary Protected Status [TPS].
A recent decision to end the availability of the TPS for Hondurans by the Trump administration means the group will need to begin heading home to Honduras, and be out of the US by January 1, 2020.
The decision was made in spite of Honduran officials, human rights groups and Democratic congressmen and women all fighting for the protections to be extended.
Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, released a statement on Friday explaining because the TPS was put in place because of Hurricane Mitch, which devastated the nation in 1998, circumstances regarding the hurricane were all that were examined in the decision.
Ms Nielsen’s statement said because ‘since 1999, conditions in Honduras that resulted from the hurricane have notably improved’.
‘Additionally, since the last review of the country’s conditions in October 2016, Honduras has made substantial progress in post-hurricane recovery and reconstruction from the 1998 Hurricane Mitch.’
Hurricane Mitch killed 11,000 people and caused more than $5billion worth of damage when it hit Central America in 1998, History Channel reported.
In Honduras, entire villages were washed away, and the country lost most of its infrastructure.
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