Over 1 million immigrants lose TPS as Trump's terminations take effect.
Federal judge lifts his block on the termination of TPS for Ethiopians in the US. All Trump admin TPS terminations are now in effect for more than 1 million people.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security logo is displayed on May 30 in Washington.Getty Images
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.
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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.
Secretary of State Mike Pomepo shakes hands with El Salvadoran Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill at the State Department on Oct. 10, 2019AP file
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."
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.
