Countries Face: Immigrant Advocates and Supporters Note

countries face: Hondurans will have until Jan. 5, 2020, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said, according to Toronto Star. President Donald Trump, who wants to curtail legal immigration and has been cracking down broadly on illegal immigration, and his supporters note that the protections were never meant to be permanent. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's widely anticipated decision not to renew temporary protected status for Hondurans means an estimated 428,000 people from several countries face rolling deadlines beginning late this year to leave or obtain legal residency in other ways. Immigrant advocates decried the move and contend that ending the status will drive people underground who have been establishing roots in the U.S. for years or decades, including having American-born children. The administration says conditions in Honduras have improved, while advocates argue that it still hasn't fully recovered from the hurricane and is now plagued by rampant violence. Article Continued Below For Hondurans, the program known as TPS has been in place since 1999 after Hurricane Mitch devastated in the Central American nation the year before. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.