U.S. prepare to deport 300,000 migrants

CAIRO – 4 November 2017: U.S. authorities are preparing to deport 300,000 migrants from Central America and Haiti living in the United State after the end of the special situation that protects them, according to Washington Post on Friday.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the acting Secretary of State, Allen Duke that the "temporary protection status" program no longer exists; the Washington post said quoting unnamed sources.

The program was established in 1990 to protect foreign nationals from being deported to their origin country because they live in an unstable environment such as natural disasters or armed conflict. The program also protects more than 300,000 people living in the United States.

The decision comes several days before the Homeland Security Department announced its plans for 57,000 Hondurans and 2,500 Nicaraguans whose protection under the program expires in early January.

Since the election of President Donald Trump in January, the United States has imposed strict measures on immigration, such as travel bans for seven Muslim countries “Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen” and the abolition of the "dreamers" program to protect migrants in childhood.