FILE PHOTO: Residents wait at the airport in hopes of evacuating the island in the wake of Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, Bahamas, September 7, 2019. Picture taken September 7, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not give temporary protected immigration status to people from the Bahamas who evacuated after the archipelago was battered by a Category 5 hurricane, the White House said on Wednesday.
The status would have allowed Bahamians to live and work in the United States while their country recovers from the worst hurricane in its history.
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