Bevy of immigration programs at risk under Trump mass deportation plan

Source: The Hill

11/17/24 5:00 PM ET


Immigrants with humanitarian or temporary legal status in the United States are at risk of being rendered effectively undocumented by the incoming Trump administration.

More than 1.5 million people can currently live and work in the country protected both by longtime programs including Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Biden administration innovations such as the parole processes for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) migrants.

“Twilight” or “liminal” statuses occupy a gray area between unauthorized presence in the United States and legal permanent immigration paperwork. According to data compiled by the Migration Policy Institute, the federal government has 3,390,295 grants of liminal statuses, though the number of people protected is almost certainly lower because some foreign nationals may be protected by more than one program.

Without the protections granted by these programs, immigrants who are accustomed to living and working in the United States legally could lose those rights overnight, risking their livelihoods and potentially being detained and deported.

Read more: https://thehill.com/latino/4993723-temporary-immigration-programs-trump-mass-deportation-plan/