TPS' slow bleed leaves thousands in limbo
The Trump administration has moved to end Temporary Protected Status for an estimated million-plus people — with expiration dates looming for thousands of others.The big picture: Tens of thousands who have lost their status or are bracing to lose it have lived in the country legally for upward of a decade, meaning communities could lose longtime members and employers could lose skilled workers."These individuals .. have families, and they're either the breadwinners or they're part of a ...
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The Trump administration has moved to end Temporary Protected Status for an estimated million-plus people — with expiration dates looming for thousands of others.The big picture: Tens of thousands who have lost their status or are bracing to lose it have lived in the country legally for upward of a decade, meaning communities could lose longtime members and employers could lose skilled workers."These individuals .. have families, and they're either the breadwinners or they're part of a ... team of breadwinners trying to sustain themselves in this economy," says Lucia Gomez, a national immigration and worker rights coordinator with the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA).Driving the news: The Trump administration, bolstered by a June Supreme Court decision that green-lit ending protections for Syrian and Haitian TPS holders, has gutted protections.Judges have since cleared the way for the administration to strip protections, including a federal judge who lifted his stay blocking terminations for Ethiopians on Tuesday."The administration's target on the TPS program is very clear," says Jose Palma, a coordinator with the National TPS Alliance. What's next: For others — including some 170,000 people from El Salvador and 101,000 from Ukraine — the expiration date for their TPS status looms.Those existing designations may be automatically extended like they were for Lebanon in May, says Julia Gelatt, Associate Director of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute's U.S.
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- The Trump administration has moved to end Temporary Protected Status for an estimated million-plus people — with expiration dates looming for thousands of others.The big picture: Tens of thousands who have lost their status or are bracing to lose it have lived in the country legally for upward of a decade, meaning communities could lose longtime members and employers could lose skilled workers."These individuals .. have families, and they're either the breadwinners or they're part of a ...
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