Trump Ends Protective Status

 The Daily Grind -View as a web page | [View Online]( [The DAily GRIND News]( Grind for November 27, 2017 # First sip "The day I made that statement, about inventing the Internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder." - Al Gore   [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( You Earned It The Headline "Butcher of Bosnia" earns lifetime sentence The Grind After a trial spanning more than five years, Ratko Mladic (AKA the "Butcher of Bosnia") is finally being punished for the genocidal war crimes he committed during the Bosnian civil war (1992-1995). As announced earlier this week, Mladic was found guilty of nine crimes against humanity and genocide. In a summary of the verdict, Judge Alphons Orie said Mladic's crimes "rank among the most heinous known to humankind, and include genocide and extermination." Foremost among these crimes is an incident known as the "Srebrenica massacre," in which Mladic and his troops systematically executed more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks. The Details The former Bosnian Serb commander also played a key role in the Siege of Sarajevo, a struggle that lasted 44 months and resulted in 10,000 deaths, most of them civilians. Mladic's troops have been accused of crimes including mass rape, abuse of prisoners, destruction of homes and mosques, and terrorizing civilians in Sarajevo. Mladic spent 16 years on the run before he was finally arrested in 2011. He has been on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ever since. The 530-day trial involved 169 prosecution witnesses, 208 defense witnesses, and over 9,900 pieces of evidence. Mladic was the 161st and final individual to be arrested and tried by the tribunal, which will close its doors for good at the end of next month. Mladic will be remembered "for the many communities and lives he destroyed," said prosecutor Serge Brammertz. "Today's judgment is a milestone in the tribunal's history and for international justice." [share]( [tweet]( You Might Like        [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Its About Time The Headline Trump ends protected status for 60,000 Haitians The Grind The thousands of Haitian refugees who came to the US following a devastating earthquake in 2010 have long overstayed their welcome. These individuals have been living here for seven years under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, which was established in 1990 to protect foreign nationals from being sent back to dangerous conditions caused by war or natural disaster. On Monday, the Trump Administration announced that it would be ending TPS protections for 60,000 Haitians. Individuals currently enrolled in the program will have until July 2019 to file for legal status or risk being deported. The process will be especially complicated for Haitians who have had children while in the US. The Details The Trump Administration approved a 6-month extension to TPS protections earlier this year, but the time has come. The keyword in "Temporary Protected Status" is temporary. The official decision comes from acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke, who ended the same protections for 5,300 Nicaraguans about a month ago. Duke determined that the conditions resulting from the earthquake no longer exist. "The law says if conditions on the ground do not support it, you cannot extend the TPS designation," said a senior administration official. Former DHS Secretary John F. Kelly, who previously warned that the TPS would soon be ending, said the extension "should allow Haitian TPS recipients living in the US time to attain travel documents and make other necessary arrangements for their ultimate departure from the US, and should also provide the Haitian government with the time it needs to prepare for the future repatriation of all current TPS recipients." The TPS program was never intended to be a pathway to citizenship, but immigration rights groups have responded to the announcement by demanding that the Haitians be given special citizenship opportunities. Many have pointed to the current cholera epidemic in Haiti as a reason these individuals should stay in the US, but the TPS statute clearly states that only conditions directly related to the disaster that initiated the TPS designation can be taken into account when deciding whether to extend those protections. [share]( [tweet]( Good to the last drop Did you know... More people have a phobia of frogs than rats. [share](#) [tweet](#) You Might Like    [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}"   TO OPT OUT [OPT OUT]( your email address from our list. We respect your right to privacy. [View our policy.]( This email was sent by: The Daily Grind News 6890 E. Sunrise Dr. Suite 120-137 Tucson, AZ. 85750 Don't forget, your friend wants to be interesting too. So [Forward this Email to a Friend](