In Heartless Move, Trump Administration Ends TPS for Honduras

WASHINGTON – In response to the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 50,000 Hondurans nationwide, Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement:

“True to form, this administration deliberately chose to wreak havoc on the lives of nearly 57,000 Hondurans and their tens of thousands of U.S-born children. In the past six months, this administration has inhumanely stripped TPS from 200,000 Salvadorans, 50,000 Haitians, 9,000 Nepalese, 2,500 Nicaraguans, and 1,000 Sudanese – a continuation of its immoral anti-immigrant agenda. Inevitably, families will be torn apart and tens of thousands of U.S-born children will be stripped from their parents – a move that will have devastating ripple effects. This administration’s heartless decisions will not only impact TPS holders, but our society and economy as well.”

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