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Some 300 protesters walked in front of Palmerola, a U.S. military airbase to demand the departure of the U.S. troops after TPS cancellation for Hondurans.
Some 300 protesters walked in front of Palmerola, a U.S. military airbase to demand the departure of the U.S. troops after TPS cancellation for Hondurans.
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the U.S. embassy in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa Saturday to protest Washington's decision to cancel the Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which granted protection status to nearly 60,000 Honduran immigrants.
The program protected nearly 56,000 Hondurans and offered respite to people fleeing violence in Central American and Caribbean countries for nearly two decades. TPS was established in 1999, a year after Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras.
Comment: The tragic irony here is that Hondurans are trying to escape from oppression in part created by - you guessed it - the US:
Honduras election turmoil has people protesting in the streets just as they did after US-backed coup in 2009
The protest follows the U.S. announcement on May 4, in which the Trump administration effectively terminated the program for Hondurans. According to the Center for Migration Studies, those under the TPS from Honduras have 53,500 U.S.-born children.
Comment: Whether there is actually a rise in measles or not, one thing's for sure, whenever one of these stories becomes news it's accompanied by calls for more vaccination - and, so far, those vaccinations end up causing more harm for the recipients than the disease itself: