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.”