US cancels temporary protected status for Syrians

Syrian migrants are now facing arrest and deportation if they do not leave the country within 60 days, according to the United States, which has lifted the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation.

The action on Friday was a result of US President Donald Trump’s broad campaign to deport illegal immigrants.

More than 6, 000 Syrians who have been granted legal status since 2012 will be terminated by TPS, according to a Federal Register notice that was made public on Friday.

According to Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, “Conditions in Syria no longer prevent their nationals from returning home.”

It is against our country’s national interest to permit Syrians to remain in our nation because Syria has been a hotbed of terrorism and extremism for nearly two decades.

Syrian nationals who are currently residing in the US have 60 days to voluntarily leave and return home, according to the statement.

Any Syrian national who has not yet begun their voluntary removal proceedings will face arrest and deportation, it said.

Trump, a Republican, has pushed for the end of the country’s hundreds of thousands of immigrants, some of whom have been legally resident and working there for decades.

Deportation protections were overused in the past, according to the administration, and many migrants no longer qualify.

Democrats and migrants’ rights advocates claim that TPS enrollees could be forced to work in dangerous settings and that US employers depend on their labor.