Trump terminating authorized protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota : NPR

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Evan Vucci/AP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump stated Friday night time that he is "instantly" terminating short-term authorized protections for Somali migrants residing in Minnesota, additional focusing on a program in search of to restrict deportations that his administration has already repeatedly sought to weaken.

Minnesota has the nation's largest Somali group. Many fled the lengthy civil struggle of their east African nation and had been drawn to the state's welcoming social applications.

However what number of migrants can be affected by Trump's announcement that he needs to finish short-term protecting standing may very well be very small. A report produced for Congress in August put the variety of Somalis coated by this system at simply 705 nationwide.

Congress created this system granting Short-term Protecting Standing in 1990. It was meant to stop deportations of individuals to international locations affected by pure disasters, civil strife or different harmful circumstances.

The designation may be granted by the Homeland Safety secretary and is granted in 18-month increments.

The president introduced his choice on his social media website, suggesting that Minnesota was "a hub of fraudulent cash laundering exercise."

"Somali gangs are terrorizing the folks of that nice State, and BILLIONS of {Dollars} are lacking. Ship them again to the place they got here from," Trump wrote. "It is OVER!"

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations stated Trump's choice "will tear households aside." Government Director Jaylani Hussein stated in an announcement late Friday, "This isn't only a bureaucratic change; it's a political assault on the Somali and Muslim group pushed by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric."

Trump promised whereas campaigning to win again the White Home final yr that his administration would deport hundreds of thousands of individuals. As a part of a broader push to undertake hardline immigration insurance policies, the Trump administration has moved to withdraw numerous protections that had allowed immigrants to stay in the US and work legally.

That included ending TPS for 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians who had been granted safety underneath President Joe Biden. The Trump administration has additionally sought to restrict protections beforehand prolonged to migrants from Cuba and Syria, amongst different international locations.