The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has extended work permits for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants with temporary protected status from Haiti and six other countries.
Background
Temporary protected status allows people already in the United States to remain in the country and work legally if their home countries are affected by natural disasters, armed conflict or other extraordinary conditions.
The Trump administration has pursued a hardline immigration crackdown and deportation drive, which has been widely condemned by human rights groups as being in violation of free speech and due process rights.
Labor groups had urged an extension of the work permissions, arguing that their removal could result in “chaos in workplaces and disrupt key industries.”
Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
