The Bahamian government and international aid organizations acknowledge conditions are dismal. Agency for International Development remarked that it looked “almost as though a nuclear bomb had dropped. Surveying the damage after the storm passed, the administrator for the U.S. With winds up to 220 mph, Dorian was the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Bahamas, causing death and injury, widespread destruction, mass displacement of residents and serious disruption of living conditions across the islands - and affecting more than 76,000 people. It slowly moved across the islands, languishing over Grand Bahama for days. Hurricane Dorian. Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 hurricane and one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in recorded history, first made landfall on the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas on Sept. These collateral forms of relief include prosecutorial discretion, deferred action and humanitarian parole. For example, there are many Haitian nationals who were born in the Bahamas, were displaced by the hurricane, and similarly need protection (The Bahamas does not provide birthright citizenship, so these Haitian nationals would not benefit under a grant of TPS for the Bahamas). DHS should also focus on providing various forms of relief, especially for non-Bahamanian nationals who were affected by Hurricane Dorian. The extensive damage and displacement inflicted by Hurricane Dorian in September of 2019 warrants the use of TPS for the Commonwealth of the Bahamas). The United States has a long history of utilizing TPS to provide protections to citizens of other countries from being forced to return to homelands that are recovering from natural disasters, including Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti, Nepal, and Nicaragua.
Why Should TPS be Designated for the Bahamas? For more information on which countries currently hold TPS, please consult CLINIC’s website and TPS generally, CLINIC’s backgrounder.
TPS may also be redesignated, allowing people who more recently arrived from a country after a catastrophe to apply for protection. Under the law, TPS may be extended as many times as necessary, as long as the dangerous country conditions continue. TPS, designated by the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, provides a period of six to 18 months of authorization to work lawfully in the United States and protection from deportation. Examples of such circumstances include armed conflict or environmental disaster. Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, provides life-saving humanitarian protection to foreign nationals in the United States who cannot safely return to their home country due to extraordinary circumstances. Backgrounder on Temporary Protected Status for the Bahamas
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