Trump’s efforts to end TPS for multiple countries tied up in legal battles

Although the Trump administration has aimed to end temporary protective status for immigrants from multiple countries as part of its sweeping immigration agenda, several of the orders to rescind that status have become involved in litigation and have been halted.

TPS, a designation typically afforded to countries whose residents cannot return temporarily due to conflict, a natural disaster, or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions,” has been a target of the Trump administration, as they say the Biden administration abused the system beyond what was intended. The program offers legal status for some foreign nationals but does not give them a legal claim to be in the U.S. once the designation expires.

“Temporary Protected Status was designed to be just that — TEMPORARY. Granted for 18 months

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