Gov't lets Liberians stay in US amid Ebola crisis - Yahoo News
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL 9-26-14
WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberian immigrants living in the United States without a visa won't be sent back to the epicenter of Ebola crisis in West Africa for at least another two years, the Obama administration said Friday.
President Barack Obama signed a memo extending a legal protection called "deferred enforced departure" that continues a protection from deportation that has been in place for more than a decade.
The government first granted Liberians temporary protective status during that country's bloody civil war, which started in 1991 and ended in 2003.
That original protection expired in October 2007.
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