The U.S. Deported Them to Iran Just Before American Bombs Started Falling

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May 29, 2026
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The Marshall Project
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The Trump administration has attempted to end Temporary Protected Status for at least nine countries, including Venezuela, Somalia, Haiti and Afghanistan. These places remain dangerous — the State Department’s Haiti page, for example, warns of “kidnapping, crime, terrorist activity, civil unrest, and limited health care.” Removing the protection seems like a pretext to deport more people, said Jennifer Chacón, a professor at Stanford Law School who studies immigration. “It flies in the face of what [Temporary Protected Status] is supposed to do.”

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