Junta hails end to US protected status for Myanmar nationals

Human rights monitors pan Washington move to remove shield, citing localised martial law and conscriptingMyanmar’s junta applauded the Donald Trump administration on Wednesday for halting a scheme that protected its citizens from deportation from the US back to their war-racked homeland.About 4,000 Myanmar citizens are living in the US with temporary protected status (TPS), which shields foreign nationals from deportation to disaster zones and allows them the right to work. Continue reading...