The Trump administration is ending the protected status of thousands of Afghans From Afghanistan In 2021, under Biden’s management.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security does not intend to renew the Temporary Protection Status (TPS) of Afghans, which lasts six to 18 months and is suitable for people from countries suffering from war or natural disasters or some other country that brings back to danger.
The U.S. military evacuated more than 82,000 Afghans from the country when it evacuated in 2021, and the Taliban took over the country.
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Afghan evacuee at her Massachusetts apartment in 2022. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)
Thousands of Cameroonians are expected to lose their status.
DHS spokesman Tricia McLaughlin told Reuters that DHS secretary Kristi Noem has determined that the situation in Afghanistan and Cameroon no longer meets the standards of Afghan and Cameroonians to reprotect TPS.
“The secretary believes that Afghanistan no longer continues to meet the statutory requirements of its TPS designation, so she terminated the TPS for Afghanistan,” McLaughlin said in a statement.
Shawn Vandriver, who served in the military and served as president of #AFGHANEVAC, disagreed with the government’s assessment of Afghanistan.
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Afghans boarded a plane in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 9, 2021 after we and foreign forces retreated from the country on a large scale. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
“The conditions on the ground have not improved,” he told NPR. “The Afghans who were invited to build their lives here are now told that they don’t matter. It’s cruel, it’s messy, and it will undermine everything that the United States claims to not support us, we promise not to abandon our allies.”
More than 14,000 Afghans and 7,000 Cameroonians are expected to lose TPS protection.
The Biden administration updated TPS protections for Afghans in 2023.
The protection of TPS in Afghanistan ended in May and Cameroon in June. At that time, foreign nationals would be Qualified to be deported.
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Kristi Noem, secretary of the Ministry of Homeland Security, determined that the situation in Afghanistan and Cameroon no longer meets the standards of Afghan and Cameroonians to renew TPS protection. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Last month, judges postponed Trump administration efforts End TPS protection for Venezuelans.
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Afghanistan and Venezuela are both listed as “Level 4: Don’t Travel” by the U.S. State Department because of the risks of terrorism, illegal detention, civil unrest and kidnapping.
Cameroon is classified as “Level 2: Movement increases caution” due to the risks of terrorism, kidnapping and armed violence.
Reuters contributed to the report.
