Biden To Extend Immigrant Protections In Waning Days Of Administration.
The Biden administration announced Friday it would extend temporary deportation relief to nearly 1 million people from El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela, just days before Donald Trump enters the White House with a vow to restrict the program.
The move allows people from these countries who currently have Temporary Protected Status to renew work permits and deportation protections — extending the program for El Salvador until March 2026 and Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela until October 2026. The TPS designation, created by Congress in 1990, has been used by presidents from Republican and Democratic administrations to offer legal reprieve to people from countries struck by natural disaster, armed conflict or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”
By MYAH WARD, ‘Politico’
The Biden Administration is attempting to blunt some of the policies the new administration vows to take in the very first days after assuming power in the White House. There are approximately 11 million illegal immigrants in the nation and exactly now they will be or could be removed remains to be seen. The cost associated with the removal will be very large both in the labor hours devoted to this deportation and jobs that illegal immigrants filled that will go unfilled as a result.
