Honduras Requests US
Extends TPS
TEGUCIGALPA - The
Honduran government
requested the US Tuesday
to allow a new extension
of the Temporary
Protection Status to
guarantee the
continuance of more than
76,000 Honduran citizens
who are living in the US
illegally, said the
Honduran Foreign
Ministry.
The request of
increasing the time
limit in favour of
Honduran illegal
residents in the US in
18 months is the eighth
since 1998.
Honduran newspaper
Tiempo Digital
remembered that TPS
expires on January 5,
2009, and if the
widening request is not
definitely accepted and
approved, more than
76,000 Hondurans would
be exposed to
deportation.
Only in 2007, the
government of US
President George W. Bush
repatriated nearly
68,000 Hondurans. At the
beginning of July 2008,
the number was reaching
29,000 Hondurans,
according to official
data.
The TPS extension demand
was presented by
Honduran Ambassador to
Washington Roberto
Flores to Daniel Fisk,
Director of the Office
for the Western
Hemisphere Affairs, and
other US authorities. |
