The Trump administration is ending a designation for Syria that has allowed thousands of its citizens to live and work in the United States.
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it will not renew Syria’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a program that shields eligible foreign nationals from deportation and provides work authorization when a safe return to their home country is deemed impossible due to conditions such as war or natural disaster.
The status was first granted for Syria in 2012, in response to the civil war that erupted the previous year, and was extended multiple times during Trump’s first term and the Biden administration….