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Undated: TPS is a temporary benefit that does not lead to lawful permanent resident status or give any other immigration status.
However, registration for TPS does not prevent you from: Applying for nonimmigrant status, Filing for adjustment of status based on an immigrant petition, Applying for any other immigration benefit or protection for which you may be eligible ...
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status
Undated: Temporary protected status (also called "TPS") is a temporary status given to eligible nationals of designated countries who are present in the United States. The status, afforded to nationals from some countries affected by armed conflict or natural disaster, allows persons to live and work in the United States for limited times.[1][2] Currently, persons from ten countries—Haiti, El Salvador, Syria, Nepal, Honduras, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Nicaragua; and South Sudan—have temporary protected status. About 320,000 people have TPS as of 2017, the majority from El Salvador (195,000), Honduras (57,000), and Haiti (46,000).[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_protected_status
-- 2016 --
November 9: What Will Donald Trump Mean For Immigration?
Donald Trump’s victory [winning the presidential election] hands the presidency to the first anti-immigration individual to hold the office in contemporary history.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2016/11/09/what-will-donald-trump-mean-for-immigration/#881da5f17145
November 9: Trump’s victory in the Presidential election is a tremendous political upset. The biggest issue raised by Trump was immigration—and he didn’t waver from his restrictionist position.
https://www.cato.org/blog/president-trumps-immigration-plans?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIruXbzd-e2AIVDp7ACh3QdgAcEAMYASAAEgIYtvD_BwE
December 13: Salvadorans Wary But Hopeful That Trump Will Not Touch TPS
https://voicesofny.org/2016/12/salvadorans-wary-but-hopeful-that-trump-will-not-touch-tps/
-- 2017 --
February 8: Jeff Sessions—whose civil rights history was so troubling that a Republican Senate refused to confirm him as a federal judge in the 1980s—was confirmed today to serve as U.S. Attorney General. “Sessions’ abysmal record of opposition to fundamental civil rights and environmental protections disqualifies him for service as head of our federal department dedicated to justice for everyone in our country,” said Martin Hayden, Vice President of Policy & Legislation.
The Attorney General is sworn to enforce and uphold all laws of our nation, including the laws that protect our right to a healthy environment and the laws that uphold our fundamental civil rights. There is no fixed term length for the Attorney General position.
https://earthjustice.org/features/what-you-should-know-about-jeff-sessions-the-u-s-attorney-general?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm6LYnOKe2AIVU57ACh25RwCTEAAYAiAAEgIhefD_BwE
April 2: Trump Administration Unlikely to Review TPS For Liberians, Sierra Leoneans, Guineans
https://www.frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/news/3773-trump-administration-unlikely-to-review-tps-for-liberians-sierra-leoneans-guineans
April 21: Advocates Ask Trump Administration to Extend Haitian TPS ... USCIS acting director James McCament said in a letter last week that conditions have improved enough in Haiti after a series of natural disasters that TPS can be ended for Haitians living in America.
The ending of TPS would mean the ending of their legal status here (for those who are here under TPS), opening them up to arrest, detention, and deportation. It would also mean family separation for those who have given birth to US-citizen children here over the last seven years, who would have to choose between taking their children to a dangerous country, or not being together at all.
https://americasvoice.org/blog/advocates-ask-trump-administration-extend-haitian-tps-18-months/
August 24: Temporary Protected Status: An Overview
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/temporary-protected-status-overview
August 27: El Salvador Asks US Government for TPS Extension
https://www.voanews.com/a/el-salvador-asks-us-government-for-tps-extenwsion-/4002837.html
October 10: Haiti requests 18-month TPS extension from Trump administration
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article178008606.html
November 16: Hondurans in US live in limbo amid TPS uncertainty ... For Belinda Osorio Hanzman, being forced to return to San Pedro Sula in Honduras would mean leaving behind her two US-born children.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/hondurans-live-limbo-tps-uncertainty-171116135602426.html
November 20: Haitian quake victims in the U.S. will lose deportation protection in 2019 ... The special deportation protection known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, will be revoked for as many as 59,000 Haitians living and working in Miami and across the U.S.
At the end of ... 18 months, Haitians who had TPS but remain in the U.S. will return to whatever immigration status they previously held, leaving them facing possible detention and deportation if they stay in the country illegally.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article185716193.html
December 19: America rescued her from Haiti. Now Trump wants to send her back.
Long before the TPS decision was announced, Haitians, like other immigrants, began fleeing the United States.
It began with candidate Donald Trump's inflammatory campaign rhetoric calling Mexicans rapists and criminals, his pledge to build a wall on the southern border and then, as President, his attempts to enact travel bans against Muslim nations.
Many headed for Canada. Others felt trapped behind the southern border. No country in North America, it seemed, wanted the Haitians.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/us/haitians-lose-protected-status/index.html
-- 2018 --
June 7: Woman's forced labor for Salvadoran guerrillas means she must leave US, court rules
According to the court documents, the woman was kidnapped by the guerrillas in El Salvador and made to do the cooking and cleaning "under threat of death." She was also "forced to witness her husband, a sergeant in the Salvadoran Army, dig his own grave before being killed."
Nevertheless, the 2-1 opinion holds that the woman's coerced duties for the group constituted "material support" for a terrorist organization, and thus made her ineligible to be granted asylum or have her deportation order canceled in the US -- though a lower court judge had ruled she would otherwise be eligible for such relief.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/woman-el-salvador-guerillas-ruling/index.html
July 13: 83 Members of Congress Urge the Administration to Extend and Redesignate Temporary Protected Status for Somalia
https://jayapal.house.gov/media/press-releases/83-members-congress-urge-administration-extend-and-redesignate-temporary
July 19: Somalis in US to keep protected status
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/397987-somalis-in-us-to-keep-protected-status
October 4: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from ending TPS
[U.S. District Judge] Chen ruled that the government must maintain TPS, and employment authorizations for TPS beneficiaries from those countries, while a lawsuit challenging the government's decision to eliminate their protections continues.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/tps-preliminary-injunction/index.html
October 30: Flee or hide: Haitian immigrants face difficult decisions under Trump
Administration uprooted the lives of 60,000 Haitians by ending program that allowed them to live and work legally in the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/30/haiti-immigrants-new-york-temporary-protected-status-trump-tps
-- 2019 --
January 3: Trial to Begin in Fight to Challenge Trump Haiti TPS Decision
https://haitiantimes.com/2019/01/03/trial-to-begin-in-fight-to-challenge-trump-haiti-tps-decision/
-- 2020 --
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