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Dulcinea

(7,977 posts) Sat Jan 11, 2025, 08:48 AM Jan 11

Biden extends time in US for 800,000 Venezuelans, Salvadorans as Trump readies immigration crackdown

MIAMI (AP) — About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 230,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, barely a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with promises of hardline immigration policies.

Biden’s administration has strongly supported Temporary Protected Status, which he has broadly expanded to cover about 1 million people. TPS faces an uncertain future under Trump, who tried to sharply curtail its use during his first term as president. Federal regulations would allow the extensions to be terminated early, although that’s never been done before.

Homeland Security also extended TPS for more than 103,000 Ukrainians and 1,900 Sudanese that are already living in the U.S.

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-tps-biden-immigration-temporary-protected-status-f423f4f3cdbac535af35337ebda314f0

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Biden extends time in US for 800,000 Venezuelans, Salvadorans as Trump readies immigration crackdown (Original Post) Dulcinea Jan 11 OP

That's good. Now please extend to Haitians here on TPS. Please, Haiti is too dangerous to return anyone. scarletlib Jan 11 #1

Why not extend it for 10 years ? MichMan Jan 11 #2

Anyone want to bet Kilgore Jan 11 #3

Not taking that bet. Igel Jan 11 #4

scarletlib

(3,524 posts)

1. That's good. Now please extend to Haitians here on TPS. Please, Haiti is too dangerous to return anyone.

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 09:17 AM

Jan 11

MichMan

(14,418 posts)

2. Why not extend it for 10 years ?

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Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:37 AM

Jan 11

Kilgore

(1,818 posts)

3. Anyone want to bet

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:07 AM

Jan 11

That Trump will recind this extension?
He will have the power.

Igel

(36,615 posts)

4. Not taking that bet.

Reply to Kilgore (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:12 PM

Jan 11

He has other fish to fry.

But I expect he or Homan might lean on Congress to do revise the TPS. A long-standing (R) complaint is exemplified by a poster case for this particular status extension. An El Salvadoran man with wife and kids was highlighted, mild outrage over how unjust it would be to even think of sending him back and ripping him from his American kids (I don't recall if wife was a citizen). Later it was pointed out he'd been here "temporarily" for the last 29 years.

I know a lot of "permanent" things that didn't last half that long.

Rename it or make words mean what 99% of native English speakers would think they'd mean. That seems like a simple thing to ask.

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