Posted on 03/08/2019 9:40:59 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The Trump administration has granted Temporary Protected Status holders from South Sudan an 18-month extension.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced the extension on Friday, saying that she made the decision after reviewing conditions on the ground.
"After carefully reviewing conditions in South Sudan with interagency partners, Secretary Nielsen determined the ongoing armed conflict and extraordinary and temporary conditions that support South Sudan’s current designation for TPS continue to exist," the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
The extension allows the 84 TPS beneficiaries from South Sudan to reregister to remain in the country until Nov. 2, 2020.
TPS allows people from countries that are undergoing national or political disasters to live and work temporarily in the U.S.
DHS announced last week that it was also extending TPS for people from Sudan, El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua, while the administration faces lawsuits over its efforts to downsize the program.
DHS originally sought to end TPS benefits for people from these four countries, but extended those designations to comply with an October court order.
The administration's decisions to end TPS for Haiti and El Salvador came under heavy criticism. TPS benefits for people from the four countries has been renewed until Jan. 2, 2020.
The National TPS alliance, a TPS advocacy group, said the new extension is evidence that that its advocacy was making a difference.
"This small concession is proof that our advocacy is working, yet far from over," National TPS Alliance Coordinator José Palma said in a statement to The Hill.
"Secretary Nielsen is facing a major lawsuit the racist cancellation of the program and the procedural violations," he added. "While we recognize the extension it does not deter us from the real objective of reforming our immigration policy and ensuring a permanent protection for all TPS holders."
No steps forward, two steps back.
Well, at least most South Sudanese are Christian.
Trump is the greatest statesman and strategic genius the world has known for centuries.
He is seeing the whole board.
President Trump extends protection to Christians persecuted.
You will not see that truth or headline anywhere.
These are Christians being slaughtered by Muslim scum.
There are protests going on in Sudan that are going to prove a headache for China in the long run. If Trump wants to protect a bunch of Christian Sudanese and keep them out of harms way, great.
Liberals love to use precedent to get what they want.
Don't be surprised during the next 'refugee crisis' when liberals cite this a 'precedent' to extend special status to other groups.
None of these people are ever leaving.
How about extend it to white South Africans, who are one step away from suffering genocide?
South Sudan is a disappointing disaster. After years of struggle to get free of Muslim Sudan, they have descended into utter chaos, self-inflicted. It was a project led by missionaries who did all they could to help the supposedly Christian South Sudanese, who now can’t seem to stop killing each other.
No they are not.
This is the same logic that filled MN with Somali.
Lying is how Muslims get what they want.
You learn it very fast once you visit Israel.
Oh and I’ve been to Israel, Jordan and MN.
Yes but it recognized that the USA is open to admit victims of Islam, which could be many Christians from that region. I would love Donald to extend this to white South Africans. The left would go nuts.
And I think the only country that still practices slavery.
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