World Relief, a global Christian humanitarian organization, is calling on the Trump administration to reverse its decision to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of immigrants of South Sudan who have fled armed conflict in the nation.
In a press release on Nov. 5, the Department of Homeland Security said, “After conferring with interagency partners, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem determined that conditions in South Sudan no longer meet the TPS statutory requirements.”
The termination is currently set to go into effect on Jan. 5, 2026, and will affect roughly 5,000 South Sudanese who currently live in the United States.
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South Sudan has been involved in civil wars and armed conflicts off and on for decades. At present, humanitarian concerns surround an escalating internal conflict, and U.N. officials fear another all-out conflict is looming.
The South Sudanese are the latest in a series of groups that have lost TPS, including Haitians, Venezuelans, Syrians, and Afghans.
In a press release, World Relief, which has been involved in providing humanitarian aid in South Sudan since 1998, pointed out that many South Sudanese “have been lawfully present in the U.S., in many cases, since 2011, when it was first designated.”
“Though this decision affects a relatively small number of individuals, it signals a breakdown in the promise made to people who had been offered haven from a country still deemed too dangerous for travel due to armed conflict and kidnapping risk,” the release added.
World Relief continued:
World Relief grieves alongside these South Sudanese women, men and children who join the ranks of more than 1 million individuals…who had been offered TPS due to highly volatile conditions in their home countries, and whose status the administration has terminated or sought to terminate since the beginning of the year, even though all these regions are still among the world’s greatest humanitarian crises.
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“While some groups’ future still hangs in the balance of pending lawsuits, some have already had to repatriate into uncertain circumstances,” said World Relief.
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