Tag: USA: TPS immigrants

NOVANEWS By Gloria La Riva Los Angeles pro-immigrant rally. Liberation photo: Ben Huff Continuing its attack on immigrants, the Trump administration on Jan. 8 cancelled the Temporary Protected Status for 200,000 Salvadorans who were allowed to stay in the United States since 2001, when two earthquakes shattered El Salvador that year. The Salvadoran TPS designation was maintained until now by continued renewals during the Bush and Obama administrations, due to conditions of gang violence and poverty in El Salvador. It was ended by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Jan. 8. Trump revoked Haitian and Honduran TPS status in November, setting the stage for deeper crisis in those communities. The Temporary Protected Status is a federal program that began in 1990, after intense mob...