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In Florida, Venezuelans worry about the potential loss of temporary protected status

5:55pm May 20, 2025

by Greg Allen

When the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday the Trump administration could strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans while litigation continues in the lower courts, the move sent shockwaves.

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Local Hondurans face the potential end of their Temporary Protected Status

9:00am May 19, 2025

by Abe Levine

Temporary Protected Status provides refuge for migrants who can't safely return to their home countries. Tens of thousands of Honduran nationals are waiting anxiously as their status is set to expire in July.

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White House welcomes Afrikaners to the U.S., but drops protection for Afghan allies

4:43pm May 13, 2025

Veterans and others express outrage as the Trump administration ends special protective status for Afghans who had relocated to the U.S.

Marilyn Miranda, 12, of Washington raises her hand up during a protest for an extension of the Temporary Protected Status in September 2022 in Washington, D.C.

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U.S. will expand Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans

10:23pm September 20, 2023

by Joel Rose

Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. as of July 31 can sign up for Temporary Protected Status. Homeland Security officials estimate that roughly 472,000 more people will now be eligible for work permits.

Security forces stand guard on a road as people are arrested, next to dismantled barricades that were set up by protesters demonstrating against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, on Friday.

U.S. Offers Protected Status For People From Myanmar As Coup Leaders Crack Down

6:29pm March 12, 2021

by Michele Kelemen

The Biden administration will offer temporary protected status to people who fear returning to Myanmar after the military coup and ensuing suppression of protesters that has killed at least 70 people.

A panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pictured in San Francisco, ruled on Monday that the Trump administration can end humanitarian protections for immigrants from four countries, clearing a path for their eventual deportat

Court Rules Government Can End Humanitarian Protections For Some 300,000 Immigrants

8:45pm September 14, 2020

by Rachel Treisman

Critics say ending Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan will devastate families and communities, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.

Acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan (left) and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele attend a meeting in San Salvador, El Salvador, in August.

Administration Extends Temporary Protected Status To Many Salvadorans In U.S.

9:29pm October 28, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

A month after signing an agreement with El Salvador to cooperate in limiting asylum seekers at the southern border, the U.S. extends protections for Salvadorans to legally work in the U.S.

Members of the Syrian community celebrate Syrian Independence Day during a ceremony at St. George Orthodox Church in Allentown, Pa., in April 2018.

World News

U.S. Extends Temporary Deportation Protection To Syrians

7:48pm August 01, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The government's action grants thousands of Syrians in the U.S. an 18-month extension of a program allowing them to remain here. The State Department has said no part of Syria is safe from violence.

Folders full of immigration paperwork line the shelves of Faisal Alhashadi's office in New York City. An immigration specialist who works in the Bronx, Alhashadi has been advocating on behalf of Yemeni nationals visiting and living in the U.S.

Trump Administration Renews Temporary Protected Status For Some Yemenis

8:43pm July 05, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The move, which gives another 18 months of protection from deportation, comes after the Department of Homeland Security declined to do so for nationals from several other countries in the past year.

Families live by a creek in an impoverished neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

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What Hondurans In The U.S. Can Expect When They're Deported

5:25pm May 10, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

Trump has ended temporary protected status for nearly 60,000 Hondurans. A Honduran who was deported 18 years ago gives them a preview of what life will be like when they return.

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