The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Somali nationals residing in the United States.
“BREAKING: DHS and USCIS are ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia,” the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) wrote on X. “Temporary means TEMPORARY. Somali nationals with TPS are now required to leave the United States by March 17, 2026.”
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem issued a similar statement: “Temporary means temporary. Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.” She noted that “allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests. We are putting Americans first.”
USCIS sources told Fox News that there are 2,471 Somalis living in the nation under TPS, as well as 1,383 Somalis with pending TPS applications.
The termination of TPS for Somalia comes amid a fraud investigation in Minnesota, which holds a significant Somali population.
“Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention,” President Trump wrote on social media. “All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA though Sleepy Joe Biden’s HORRIBLE Open Border’s Policy.”
“Every place we go, crime comes down. In Chicago, despite a weak and incompetent Governor and Mayor fighting us all the way, a big improvement was made,” Trump continued. “Thousands of Criminals were removed! Minnesota Democrats love the unrest that anarchists and professional agitators are causing because it gets the spotlight off of the 19 Billion Dollars that was stolen by really bad and deranged people. FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!”
