US President Donald Trump decided Tuesday to end the protected status of thousands of Liberian migrants to the United States and gave them a year to leave the country.

It’s the latest of similar moves, after more than 250,000 Salvadorans, Haitians and Nicaraguans lost their protected status under an administration which has made cracking down on immigration a priority.

In 1991, when the West African country was in the grip of civil war, some Liberians living in the US were given “temporary protected status” to allow them to remain in safety.

Then in 1999 approximately 10,000 of them were made eligible for “deferred enforced departure,” or DED, by then-president Bill Clinton, allowing them to continue to build new lives.

Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have periodically renewed the DED status, but Trump has now decided to allow it to expire, deeming Liberia safe for returnees.

Trump has taken a tough stance on immigration in general and, in reported private conversations, an even tougher stance on Africans from what he has reportedly deemed “shithole countries.”

The latest grace period expires on March 31, but Trump said in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security that he would accord the Liberians a 12-month “wind-down” period to prepare their departure.

“Through consultation with appropriate executive departments and agencies and my advisors, I have been informed that conditions in Liberia have improved,” Trump wrote.

“Liberia is no longer experiencing armed conflict and has made significant progress in restoring stability and democratic governance,” he argued.

Trump admitted that the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa had brought “tragic loss of life and economic damage” to Liberia, one of the world’s poorest countries after years of civil war.

But he declared himself satisfied with Liberia’s progress in tackling the disease.

It is not clear how many of the original 10,000 DED recipients may have died, moved on voluntarily or been granted another form of legal US residency — but the rest face an uncertain future.

Opponents of Trump’s move warned it would uproot many who had made new and productive lives for themselves in the United States.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, noted on Twitter that, thanks to the previous presidents’ DED extensions, the Liberians had been living in the United States legally since 1992.

“Many work in Minnesota hospitals and nursing homes,” she wrote. “I won’t give up this fight. We have a year.”

http://saharareporters.com/2018/03/28/trump-gives-liberians-one-year-leave-us

They should go back to their countries and contribute to the progress of their own nations

Good move

Trump is an intelligent man

Good!

I'm supporting Trump on this, what have they been doing in the United States all these years.

Engineer Donal T

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN...MAGA...HAHAHAHA

(MAGA) MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

It is well......

itchie:
Trump is an intelligent man

Yes and you are an intelligent man too

It is time for everyone to go back to their own country and develop it especially Africans.

It's a tough call though

No easy way out

OMAIGHOR!!!. OMAIGHOR!!!. OMAIGHOR!!!.

the president is just showing his true character

considering that Liberians are indirectly americans they should be left alone.....bill Clinton saw them as americans in diaspora that was y he allowed them in.


will he be able to send them back home since most of them must have become American citizens or permanent residents?

This is an opportunity to see how sharp the average Liberian is

Imagine giving Nigeria a free pass since 1991. Permanent residency don sure by 2000.

Either by marriage or childbirth.

lol


come back and build your own USA

USA/UK not a destination for now

both are waste of funds

australia, canada and some other smaller european countries are better

Baba Weyrey. He no send anybody

As much as I don't fancy this Fool.. I think it is the needed move. This is simply a matter of time before such a drastic move comes into effect. This move was crushed back in 2008 when the Minnesota gov't proposed it based on the productivity levels against violence levels of the various immigrants groups with these protected statuses. Somalis are also in this class.

Liberians and Somalis are one of the least-progressive-productive immigrants living in the U.S. They're majorly class-less, illiterates, Ignorant, regressive, less-productive (compared to other immigrants) and for the most part dumb. Liberians prefer to work menial factory jobs and even brag around with it (poverty mentality).

All these folks have enough grace period to have acquired quality education with School loans, grants and Scholarships all available to them but, instead, they're the master at faking realities. They love to live big on meager income, very lousy and obnoxious in every manner. Their women are even the worst!
The literacy level of Liberians is the lowest among immigrants.

They are such a BIG disgrace to all African Immigrants!

Ok

I JUST LIKE TRUMP!!!

Welcome back to the Shithole.!!

donadu don come again...

hmmm! Mr Trump.

This brainless turd is living the white supremacists fantasy, the losers are aware of the imminent change in demography and trying to balance it. Irrespective, the minority population of this country will still out pace the whites. Plus record number of vote in the mid terms to send the GOP into extinction will limit the madness in 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. That racist POS is a sh1t stain on the repute of this country.

So sad

Not cool.

Na to change nationality sharperly....if one no favour, port

This is going to be tough on the families

27 years is quite a long time

Some of them must have been born in America.

It is going to be a very complicated and difficult law to enforce.

I am sure there will be a great deal of court cases

By the way, how will this action make America great again?

America was famously known as the land of opportunities, until Trump came along

Na today? Keep quiet mr. Triumpet

Megatrix:
They should go back to their countries and contribute to the progress of their own nations

Because you did not leave your country abi?