U.S. Employers Told to Dismiss Thousands of Immigrant Workers

The Homeland Security Department told employers on Friday that they must let go in coming weeks the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who have been allowed to live in the United States through a humanitarian program the Trump administration has sought to dismantle.

The work permits of Haitians with Temporary Protected Status will expire on July 24. Such permits will also lapse on July 17 for those from Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, according to notices issued for each affected country by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees the legal immigration system.

{snip} More than 330,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians have been living in the country under the program, a designation granted by the U.S. government when it determines that crisis conditions in a country, such as a natural disaster or civil unrest, make it unsafe for its citizens to return.

The five other countries collectively have about 20,000 T.P.S. holders, according to the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy group.

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While the government recently extended Temporary Protected Status for those from Lebanon, the Supreme Court decision likely will embolden it to end the status for additional countries. For example, it is widely expected to let El Salvador’s protection, which covers about 200,000 people, lapse in early September. During Mr. Trump’s first term, courts blocked the termination.

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