Salvadorans anxiously await news on whether TPS protections will end
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Set us as preferred Thousands of longtime immigrants from El Salvador and their loved ones are anxiously awaiting word from the Trump administration about whether they will face the possibility of deportation if their temporary legal protections expire as scheduled Wednesday.The Department of Homeland Security has not yet announced whether it will end or extend Temporary Protected Status for some 170,000 Salvadorans, including 36,000 in California.
But federal officials have targeted for arrest other immigrant groups whose TPS expired.Since their status ended in July, many Haitians have been outfitted with ankle monitors and some have already been sent back to the politically unstable country plagued by gang violence.
As federal officials have whittled down the countries that still qualify for Temporary Protected Status, Salvadorans make up the largest population of remaining beneficiaries.Just over 100,000 people from Sudan, Ukraine and Lebanon still have TPS protections until later this year, the vast majority of them Ukrainians.
Under TPS, recipients are able to obtain permits allowing them to work legally in the country.More than 150,000 U.S.
citizen children nationwide have Salvadoran parents with TPS.Asked by The Times on Tuesday about the administration’s plans regarding TPS for Salvadorans, border advisor Tom Homan said he does not know and that the decision is up to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.Later Tuesday, Homeland Security released a statement that left the long-term outlook for Salvadorans with TPS uncertain: “An announcement on El Salvador’s TPS will be made at the appropriate time.
Until such announcement is made, Salvadoran individuals present in the U.S.under TPS retain protection.”Homan, for his part, noted that El Salvador is a “much safer country” now, perhaps suggesting th...