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US Revokes Legal Status For 500,000 Immigrants

President Joe Biden had touted the protected status scheme as a way to ease pressure on the US-Mexico border (Credit: AFP)

The United States said Friday it was terminating the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, giving them weeks to leave the country.

President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history and curb immigration, mainly from Latin American nations.

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