WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration will leave some Syrians in the U.S. at risk of being deported while their country is still mired in war, but extend temporary protections for several thousand others, the Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. The agency will extend temporary protected status, or TPS, for Syrians for another 18 months, which will allow an estimated 5,800 Syrians to legally continue living and working in the U.S. All told, that’s nearly a million people who are set to lose work permits and protections under Trump. TPS for immigrants from Syria did not suffer the same fate as people from those other nations. About 465,000 people were killed in the Syrian civil war between 2011 and 2017, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Source: Huffington Post February 01, 2018 00:33 UTC