People hold signs as they call on Congress to enact permanent protections for temporary protected status holders during a protest near the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 12. (Erik S Lesser/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it will comply with a federal court order by automatically extending to January 2020 the temporary protected status of more than 250,000 immigrants the Trump administration left facing possible deportation. The renewals will cover TPS beneficiaries from four nations — El Salvador, Haiti, Sudan and Nicaragua — whose provisional residency status was set to lapse after the Trump administration determined they no longer merited the protections. A separate federal lawsuit is seeking to win a similar extension or protections for approximately 55,000 Hondurans and 9,000 Nepalese. The Trump administration argued that earthquakes or hurricanes that happened years ago should not continue to be the basis for an irregular form of U.S. residency.

Source: Washington Post February 28, 2019 22:31 UTC