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A classic and revealing gambit here by the President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández. He tells the press that the US has "agreed" to extend TPS for Hondurans *after* he and his foreign minister met with DHS officials last week. https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-immigration-honduras-idUSKBN28H1P0 1/
The context of that meeting: two hurricanes have utterly devastated Honduras & displaced tens of thousands of people. There's little (if any) public faith in the government to help provide relief due to years of demonstrable corruption and negligence. https://contracorriente.red/2020/12/06/honduras-reconstruccion-salpicada-de-desconfianza-y-de-corrupcion/ 2/
There's no question that there are big global factors at play in the devastation (climate change), and that the international community is bogged down in bureaucracy and apathy (as JOH and others in his govt have pointed out). 3/
And yet, as @ElisabethMalkin points out here, massive political corruption in the country (and region) is a big part of this, too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/23/how-graft-incompetence-aggravate-effects-climate-change-central-america/ 4/
So, back to Juan Orlando Hernández and the TPS extension. Because of pending litigation led by @ahilan_toolong, @ACLU, & others, TPS for Honduras is due to be extended on January 4 until the fall of 2021. (Here's the notice in the federal register: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-27154.pdf ) 5/
The President of Honduras--under fire for corruption & mismanagement--is claiming credit for a TPS extension that was going to happen anyway. end/
