The Hill
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Friday it would end protections from deportation for Syrians living in the U.S., paving the way to return citizens to a country recently ravaged by civil war.
The announcement came as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was set to end for Syrians at the end of the month, ending protections that have been in place since 2012, shortly after war began in the middle eastern nation.
“This is what restoring sanity to America’s immigration system looks like,” DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
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