Activists protest against Presidential order to eliminate the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy. New York, September 2017. Photo: Albin Lohr-Jones/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved
Salvadorans with TPS will lose their status in 18 months, on September 9, 2019. The abrupt act adds another easily identifiable and locatable 200.000 persons who have been legally present and living, working and contributing to the United States for twenty years, and potentially their 193.000 U.S. citizen children, to the administration’s hate list of “bad hombres”, as President Donald Trump was wont to declare during his presidential campaign, and feed the federal deportation and detention machine.
These hundreds of thousands of people will be added to approximately 60.000 Haitians who were granted TPS in 2010 after another catastrophic earthquake that destroyed their island nation and drew worldwide attention. Haitians with TPS will lose their status in July 2019.
