Hundreds of Somali asylum seekers fear deportation as they await US decision

More than 428,250 people from six countries have lost temporary protected status – and the Trump administration may now cancel the program for Somalis

Nearly 500 Somalis in the US who escaped terrorism and drought could be forced back to the war-torn country pending a Trump administration decision due on Thursday.

The US government has said Somalia is under severe threat from the al-Qaida affiliated extremist movement, al-Shabaab, and a drought that brought the country to the brink of famine last year.

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