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In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 ("IMMACT"), P.L. 101–649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide temporary protected status to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict, an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions.
The name appears to have been covertly chosen to equate the fish to the immigrant communities which the program targeted. The policy was created in 2008 and mainly targets immigrants from Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities, [2] with the top 5 countries being Pakistan, Iraq, India, Iran and Yemen. [3]
The status prevents them from being deported and grants them work authorization, which critics argue takes jobs away from Americans and drains taxpayer resources associated with welfare services ...
The Biden administration had extended temporary protected status to approximately 670,000 people from 16 countries as of April, according to the Pew Research Center. Show comments.
Sanchez v. Mayorkas, 593 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the ability for immigrants legally residing under temporary protected status to apply for permanent resident status through a green card. In a unanimous decision, the Court ruled in June 2021 that for immigrants who had entered the U.S. unlawfully ...
Just as he did during his first presidency, Donald Trump is taking aim at an immigration program known as “temporary protected status” or TPS. It allows about 1 million people from nations in ...
Temporary protection may refer to any of several legal statuses for refugees or displaced people: Temporary protected status in the United States Temporary Protection Directive in the European Union
President-elect Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, have suggested they would scale back Temporary Protected Status, which allows people already in the United States to stay and work ...