As we’ve all been paying attention to family separations and the border wall, the @realdonaldtrump administration has been ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 legal residents, ordering them to leave the U.S. within the next 18 months. @USATODAY 1/6
These are people who've been legally living and working in the U.S., many of them for decades. They've had 270,000 children here, all U.S. citizens. So what are they supposed to do with those kids? Leave them behind? Take them to a country they've never visited? 2/6
A federal judge has given them a temporary reprieve, ruling that the administration may have slashed the program based on animus against "non-white, non-European immigrants." But that ruling may eventually be struck down by the Supreme Court, so they remain in legal limbo. 3/6
Given the magnitude of this mass deportation, we spent weeks talking with TPS holders, including the family of Ronyde Ponthieux, a registered nurse who may have to return to his native Haiti. usatoday.com/story/news/wor… via @USATODAY 4/6
We also analyzed the new legal reasoning used by @DHSgov to phase out TPS, which had been repeatedly extended by Republican and Democratic administrations for nearly 30 years. usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via @USATODAY 5/6
And while @DHSgov says conditions in those countries have improved enough for its citizens to return, we analyzed current conditions in the six countries where TPS had ended. Hint: the situation is bad. usatoday.com/story/news/wor… via @USATODAY 6/6
