Trump will end the temporary protection of Afghans and Cameroon

On Friday, officials of the Ministry of Internal Security said that the Trump administration will end the temporary protection for more than 10,000 people from Afghanistan and Cameroon, which puts them on the right track of deportation in May and June.

Several Afghans affected by the decision to the United States were allowed after the catastrophic withdrawal of their country in 2021. Now that the Trump administration can return them to a country under the Taliban rule.

Afghans and Cameroon lived in the United States legally under a temporary protected position, which aims to protect migrants from returning to countries facing conflict or natural disasters. People who have a protected situation are also allowed to work in the United States.

The Trump administration targeted TPS as part of the vast repression campaign to emigrate. Trump officials say the program is used incorrectly, to allow people to stay in the United States indefinitely. Indeed, this year, the administration tried to cut the Venezuelans of TPS and shorten the time when the Haitian could get protection.

Krish Omara Vigranraja, president of Global Liguge, a refugee resettlement organization, said that returning immigrants to Afghanistan was “unreasonable.”

“For Afghan women and girls, ending this humanitarian protection means ending access to opportunities, freedom and safety,” said Ms. Vigranraga. “Forcing them to return to the rule of the Taliban, where they face the unjust persecution and sex -based violence, will be a completely unreasonable stigma on our nation’s reputation.”

The effort may face legal challenges. Earlier this month, Judge Edward M. Chen, San Francisco’s federal court judge, temporarily of the Trump administration of TPS finish for Venezuelan.

In his decision, Mr. Chen said that the Trump administration’s efforts threatened “to inflict an irreplaceable damage to hundreds of thousands of people whose lives and families will be disrupted and their livelihoods, and cost billions in the United States in economic activity, and public health and safety in societies throughout the United States.”

Lawyers in the lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s decision on Venezuela said they would study the last step by Christie sleep, Minister of Internal Security.

“We will closely study the violations to determine whether the government complied with the TPS law in identifying Afghanistan and Cameroon safe to accept the returns of its citizens as required in the TPS law,” said Ahlan Arolithm, who runs the center of immigration policy at the University of California.

The Biden Administration first protected migrants from Afghanistan in 2022, after the government collapsed and seized by the Taliban. In 2023, they extended this protection, saying that there was a “serious threat posed by the ongoing armed conflict; lack of access to food, clean water and health care; infrastructure, internal displacement and economic instability were destroyed.”

The Biden Administration also extended protection for people from Cameroon in 2023, noting the ongoing conflict in the country. Mrs. Naim finished earlier this week.

Gustavo Torres, CEO of CASA De Maryland, an advocacy organization, said in a statement that Cameroon citizens were unable to return and reside safely in their country due to an armed conflict. He said: “Constant violence, human rights violations, and humanitarian crises in Cameroon continues to endanger its citizens.”

More than 9000 Afghans and 3000 Cameroon TPS were from late last year, according to Congress Research Service.

On March 21, “the minister decided that Afghanistan no longer continues to meet the legal requirements for the appointment of TPS, and thus ended TPS for Afghanistan,” said Tricia McLeulin, a spokeswoman for the agency, said in an email.

Julia Gilat, an immigration expert at the Institute of Immigration Policy, said this step will have far -reaching traces of Afghan society.

She said: “The TPS will be a flagrant reflection in the country’s treatment of Afghan allies who fought and worked alongside the American government. Most Afghans in the United States have strong judicial cases based on their affiliation in the United States. This is more honest for Afghan women,” she said. “The cancellation of TPS will push thousands of Afghans to the accumulated asylum system – if they can find a lawyer with the ability to support their application.”