Over a million immigrants have lost their Temporary Protected Status after a federal judge lifted the last remaining block to the Trump administration's terminations.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy has lifted his stay blocking the termination of TPS for Ethiopians in the United States. With that order, every TPS termination issued by the administration is now in effect, totaling more than a million people across the affected countries.
El Salvador is next in line. TPS for Salvadorans is set to end on September 9, affecting roughly 170,000 people who have held the status since 2001, when it was granted after a pair of devastating earthquakes. Many have lived in the U.S. for a quarter century, raising U.S.-citizen children and building businesses under a legal status that renewed so routinely it came to function as something close to permanent.
The end of that status leaves recipients without work authorization and exposed to removal unless they qualify for another form of relief. Immigrant advocacy groups have challenged the terminations in court and are expected to continue litigating, but the practical window is narrowing fast.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official account said this morning: "ALL TPS terminations are now IN EFFECT.
Those with terminated TPS should leave NOW. If they don’t, we will DEPORT them."
Those with terminated TPS should leave NOW. If they don’t, we will DEPORT them.
DHS.GOV/CBPHOME
James Percival@DHSGenCounselJudge Brian Murphy just lifted the stay of Ethiopia TPS termination. All TPS terminations are in effect!Temporary Protected Status is a humanitarian designation that shields nationals of countries facing armed conflict, natural disaster, or other extraordinary conditions from deportation and grants them work authorization. It is renewed in increments by the Homeland Security secretary, and the administration has moved aggressively to wind down designations it argues are no longer justified, casting decades-old protections as "temporary" in name only.
