Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all approved special protections, including Deferred Departure. Mr. Trump, though, said conditions have improved, and he was going to let the program — which Mr. Obama last renewed in 2016 — finally expire. He said that he would grant a one-year grace period beyond the March 31 deadline, giving Liberians time to wrap up their affairs here. Immigrant rights activists had hoped for a different answer for Liberians, who said they have earned a place here. “We have the right to be here after all these years of ‘temporary.’ ‘Temporary’ is not 20 years.”In the years since, Liberia’s economy has come to rely on remittances, or cash sent back home by its citizens working in the U.S.

Source: GNN Liberia March 28, 2018 07:30 UTC