Another Group of Immigrants May Be on the Verge of Losing Deportation Protections
DHS missed the required filing, and advocates say the lapse could trigger a 6-month automatic extension for more than 170,000 Salvadorans.
- Today, September 9, marks the scheduled expiration of Temporary Protected Status for about 170,000 Salvadorans, though a procedural oversight by the Department of Homeland Security may have automatically triggered a 6-month extension.
- Since 2001, this humanitarian program has protected beneficiaries who fled civil war and earthquakes, allowing them to build businesses and raise U.S.-citizen children for 25 years in the United States.
- Federal law requires the DHS to publish a formal notice 60 days before termination, a step officials never took; USCIS and E-Verify guidance tells employers to treat today as the end despite the missing Federal Register notice.
- Abel Nuñez, executive director of the Central American Resource Center, said 'all of us are just holding our breath' as the Culinary Union presses for an extension amid beneficiary fears of family separation.
- Despite hopes for intervention, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has remained silent on the program since 2020, as President Donald Trump continues to prioritize mass deportations of non-citizens.
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The TPS designation expires Wednesday but the statute does not give a specific time for when that happens. If the DHS takes no action, protections are automatically extended for six months.
Mayor Bass Decries End of Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, in an announcement Wednesday, decried the end of Temporary Protected Status for tens of thousands of Salvadorans. Temporary Protected Status, a program that allows immigrants from countries with armed conflict and natural disasters to come and work in the United States, expired for people from El Salvador Wednesday, leaving an […]
Fate of thousands of Marylanders from El Salvador uncertain as Trump mulls pulling protection
More than 170,000 Salvadorans, including thousands in Maryland, face an uncertain future as the U.S. considers ending a protection they have relied on for decades. The latest extension is set to expire Wednesday.
Another group of immigrants may be on the verge of losing deportation protections
By Catherine E. Shoichet, Ione Molinares, CNN Washington (CNN) — Soledad Miranda’s eyes fill with tears as she packs boxes for a move she’s hoping she won’t have to make. “I feel defeated,” she says. For 25 years, the program known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, has allowed Miranda and around 170,000 other Salvadorans
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