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The De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty said Fri­day that it is ter­mi­nat­ing le­gal pro­tec­tions for hun­dreds of thou­sands of Haitians, set­ting them up for po­ten­tial de­por­ta­tion.

DHS said that con­di­tions in Haiti have im­proved and Haitians no longer meet the con­di­tions for the tem­po­rary le­gal pro­tec­tions.

The ter­mi­na­tion of tem­po­rary pro­tect­ed sta­tus, or TPS, ap­plies to about 500,000 Haitians who are al­ready in the Unit­ed States, some of whom have lived here for more than a decade. It is com­ing three months af­ter the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion re­voked le­gal pro­tec­tions for thou­sands of Haitians who ar­rived legal­ly in the coun­try un­der a hu­man­i­tar­i­an pa­role pro­gram, and it is part of part of a se­ries of mea­sures im­ple­ment­ed to curb im­mi­gra­tion.