Opinion: Trump's senseless cruelty toward evacuees from the Bahamas (via latimesopinion)
Until this week, I had not agreed with Trump administration officials on anything having to do with immigration. But on Monday, the acting chief of Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan, said at a news conference that it would be “appropriate” to extend temporary protected status to Bahamians in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Dorian, and thatshooting down the idea
Congress enacted the law providing for TPS in 1990. It allows the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to grant temporary legal status to individuals in the United States whose countries have been severely impacted by armed conflict, or environmental disasters, such that it would be unsafe and inhumane to force them to return. While TPS doesn’t allow people to enter the U.S., it does allow those who are here to stay temporarily.
In the most affected areas — the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama Island — entire neighborhoods were obliterated, and infrastructure, including hospitals and public buildings were destroyed. The United Nations estimates that 76,000 were left homeless, and the majority of the population lost any means of livelihood as businesses were swept away.
5 event, tore through the two countries, causing massive mudslides, wiping away entire villages and destroying any means of survival.Earthquakes with similarly devastating effects have also led to the designation of TPS status — to El Salvador in 2001, Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015. And there have been numerous designations of TPS for countries embroiled in armed conflict, such as Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
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