U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in San Diego last month. Photo: Nelvin C. Cepeda/Zuma PressThe Trump administration on Friday said it would end a humanitarian program for tens of thousands of Honduran immigrants living in the U.S. since the 1990s. As many as 57,000 Honduran immigrants have been allowed to live and work in the U.S. since 1999, when immigrants from the Central American country were granted Temporary Protected Status after Hurricane Mitch devastated parts of Honduras the previous year. They now will have to leave or be granted another immigration status by January 2020. “Since 1999, conditions in Honduras that resulted from the hurricane have notably improved,” the Homeland Security Department said in a statement.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 04, 2018 20:34 UTC