They came to the United States in 2016 from Syria. (Dania Maxwell for The Washington Post)The Trump administration said Wednesday it will renew a form of provisional residency known as temporary protected status for nearly 6,000 Syrians who have been exempted from deportation since 2012 because of their nation’s bloody civil war. DHS did not say how many Syrians have reached the United States since August 2016 but the number is not thought to be very large. While a tiny portion of those have been accepted into the United States in recent years, the Trump administration has blocked their arrival almost entirely. The United States has hundreds of troops in Syria and continues to conduct airstrikes there.

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2018 01:04 UTC