Mayorkas moves to shield hundreds of thousands from deportation back to troubled Caribbean nation

The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it is shielding an other 300,000 Haitian nationals from deportation and offering them enactment permits, citing the ongoing humanitarian situation successful the country.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorka said helium is extending and redesignating Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months until February 2026. The redesignation allows Haitian immigrants, including those successful the state illegally, who were not covered by anterior designations to use for the extortion and for enactment authorization.

To beryllium eligible, Haitians indispensable person been successful the U.S. arsenic of June 3. DHS predicts that it volition let an estimated 309,000 further nationals to record for TPS, connected apical of those already protected.

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks connected Capitol Hill, connected Wednesday, April 10. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

TPS grants extortion for nationals successful countries recovered to beryllium unsafe for them to beryllium returned and is based connected 3 grounds: equipped ongoing conflict, biology disasters oregon "extraordinary and impermanent conditions." 

"Several regions successful Haiti proceed to look unit oregon insecurity, and galore person constricted entree to safety, wellness care, food, and water. Haiti is peculiarly prone to flooding and mudslides, and often experiences important harm owed to storms, flooding, and earthquakes. These overlapping humanitarian challenges person resulted successful ongoing urgent humanitarian needs," DHS said successful a release.

"We are providing this humanitarian alleviation to Haitians already contiguous successful the United States fixed the conditions that existed successful their location state arsenic of June 3, 2024," Mayorkas said successful a statement. "In doing so, we are realizing the halfway nonsubjective of the TPS instrumentality and our work to fulfill it." 

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There are presently 16 countries designated for TPS, including Venezuela, Ukraine, Honduras, El Salvador and Afghanistan. Mayorkas re-designated Venezuela past year, a determination expected to person protected implicit 470,000 nationals. 

The usage of TPS has repeatedly sparked pushback from Republicans and migration hawks, who accidental that the usage of TPS encourages amerciable migration from those countries, with radical coming successful anticipation of the adjacent redesignation. When the Venezuelan TPS redesignation was announced, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources told Fox News that the determination volition lone compound the occupation astatine the borderline and gully adjacent much Venezuelan migrants due to the fact that of the "pull" origin of being granted TPS presumption and the quality to get enactment authorization.

Unaccompanied minors locomotion toward U.S. Border Patrol vehicles aft crossing implicit from Mexico connected May 9, 2023, successful El Paso, Texas. A surge of immigrants is expected with the extremity of the U.S. government's COVID-era Title 42 policy, which for the past 3 years has allowed for the speedy expulsion of irregular migrants entering the country.  (John Moore/Getty Images)

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There were 163,781 encounters of Haitian nationals astatine the borderline successful Fiscal Year 2023, and that fig has already been exceeded successful Fiscal Year 2024. The Biden medication has besides allowed Haitians to beryllium flown into the U.S. for parole arsenic portion of the parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV). That programme allows 30,000 nationals into the state each month.

The U.S. has been facing a three-year situation astatine the confederate border, which has go a apical governmental contented up of the November election.

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Republicans person blamed the situation connected borderline policies implemented by the Biden administration, which successful crook has said it needs much backing and reforms from Congress, blaming Republican obstruction.

It has taken a fig of moves to tackle the crisis, including a caller bounds connected asylum applications and a "parole successful place" for immoderate spouses of U.S. citizens. The medication has noted that determination has been a 40% driblet successful encounters since the bounds was announced, but Biden took vigor from erstwhile President Trump connected Thursday implicit his handling of the crisis.

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"He's the 1 that killed radical with the bad border including hundreds of thousands of radical dying, and besides sidesplitting our citizens erstwhile they travel in. We are surviving close present successful a rat's nest," Trump said successful Thursday's debate.