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Public silence raises hopes among 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants for extended legal protections
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Public silence raises hopes among 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants for extended legal protections

  • By GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

A deadline for the Trump administration to decide on extending legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador passed without any public announcement, raising hopes among some that it may be automatically extended for six months. The Department of Homeland Security has been quiet about its plans, saying in a Wednesday statement that it would make an announcement “at an appropriate time” and that Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador would remain in effect until then. Its silence sent attorneys and advocates scrambling to explain what might happen next.

Temporary protections for about 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants are in limbo as deadline nears
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Temporary protections for about 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants are in limbo as deadline nears

  • By GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador are in limbo as a deadline nears for the Trump administration to decide on ending them, as it has done with hundreds of thousands from Venezuela, Haiti and other countries. The Temporary Protected Status designation expires Wednesday. If the administration takes no action, TPS will be automatically extended for six months. TPS was initially granted for El Salvador in 2001 after devastating earthquakes in the Central American country. Under TPS, people already in the United States can remain if it's deemed unsafe for them to return.