Tens of thousands of Afghans had evacuated the United States after the Taliban power – almost 15,000 of them should now lose their protection status. The situation in the country no longer justifies this.
The Trump government has lifted the temporary protection for thousands of people from Afghanistan in the United States. This is announced by a spokeswoman for the U.S. Ministry of Department. A total of 14,600 Afghans will lose the temporary protection status TPS in May.
The TPS program is available to people whose home countries are affected by a natural disaster, an armed conflict or another extraordinary event. The protection status lasts six to 18 months, can be extended by the Minister of Homeland and offers protection against deportation and access to work permits.
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After the Taliban's power was taken over in 2021, the United States evacuated more than 82,000 Afghan women from the country. The spokeswoman for the ministry said that department head Kristi Noem came to the conclusion that the situation in Afghanistan no longer justified the protection status TPS for those affected.
The Ministry of Homeland also opened the temporary US protection for 7,900 people from Cameroon.
Trump government also wants to lift protection status for Venezolans
U.S. President Donald Trump had already tried during his first presidency from 2017 to 2021 to end most applications for temporary protection status, but was prevented from federal courts.
At the end of March, a US district judge blocked the government's lifting to the temporary protection status for more than 600,000 Venezolans.
California Federal judge Edward Chen explained his order by the abolition of hundreds of thousands of people. The government's plan to abolish the temporary protection status TPS on April 7th had a “aftertaste of racism” and venezolans incorrectly represented as criminals. The planned withdrawal of protection status for hundreds of thousands of people from Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua was also stopped on Thursday by a federal judge.
