265,000 Immigrants Face Legal Limbo in the U.S. as TPS Protection Hangs in the Balance

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Hundreds of thousands of Central Americans are in danger of losing their legal status, as negotiations with the Biden Administration fail.
About 265,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Nepal and Honduras could lose their ability to live in the U.S. legally under TPS as early as Dec. 31.
Negotiations between the Biden administration and attorneys representing tens of thousands of immigrants living in the U.S. under a temporary humanitarian program collapsed this week, paving the way for Trump-era decisions to revoke their legal status to take effect absent court intervention.
After more than a year of federal court talks, the Biden administration and the immigrants’ lawyers failed to forge an agreement over ways to protect groups of immigrants who the Trump administration decided should no longer be allowed to live and work in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.
The program allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to offer deportation protections and work permits to immigrants from countries with armed conflict, environmental disasters or other “extraordinary” emergencies.ent over ways to protect groups of immigrants who the Trump administration decided should not longer be allowed to live and work in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.