It’s being reported by both DHS and Fox News that Secretary Noem just ended Temporary Protected Status for thousands of Somalians living in the United States, which began all the way back in 1991, and extended by Joe Biden in 2024.
Here’s the news:
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DHS is ENDING Temporary Protected Status for Somalians in the United States.
Our message is clear. Go back to your own country, or we’ll send you back ourselves. pic.twitter.com/moTA5BnCpM
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 13, 2026
Here’s more:
The Trump administration is ending temporary protection status (TPS) for Somalia, affecting several thousand Somalis currently living in the U.S. and several hundred currently living in Minnesota under the protection.
Somali migrants with TPS will be required to leave the country by March 17.
“Temporary means temporary,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.”
“Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests,” Noem added. “We are putting Americans first.”
Sources at USCIS told Fox News Digital that there are 2,471 Somali nationals currently in the U.S. under TPS, with 1,383 in the country with pending TPS applications.
The move comes as DHS continues ICE operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a widespread roughly $9 billion fraud scheme involving members of the Somali community plagued the state.
Fox News Digital learned that an estimated 600 Somali nationals who are protected by TPS live in Minnesota.
Somalia was granted temporary protection status in 1991 as a result of an ongoing civil war in the African nation. President Joe Biden most recently extended the protection in September 2024.
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