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Salvadoran TPS holders can stay in US for now, but attorneys say they can't legally work
Headline from ABC 7 Los Angeles, on the newest of 3 developments
Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador were in limbo Wednesday as a deadline neared for the Trump administration to decide if they should end.
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Thousands of Salvadorans brace for possible end of TPS
Headline from NBC4 Washington ·
Immigrant protections in limbo as deadline nears
Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ·
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Salvadoran TPS holders can stay in US for now, but attorneys say they can't legally work
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for tens of thousands of Salvadorans living in the D.C. metro area will expire at midnight Thursday , placing those with protected status in legal limbo. While the Trump administration said Salvadorans are retaining their TPS protection for now, the future is still u…
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – JUNE 1: People wave an El Salvador flag during a message from President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to the citizens for the 6 years of Bukele’s government in the Historic Center on June 1, 2025 in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Photo by Alex Peña/Getty Images)
The Department of Homeland Security has not yet announced whether it will end or extend Temporary Protected Status for some 170,000 Salvadorans, including 36,000 in California.
Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador are in limbo as a deadline nears for the Trump administration to decide on ending them, as it has done with hundreds of thousands from Venezuela, Haiti and other countries.
Immigrants from El Salvador were the first group granted temporary protected status. The Trump administration has been canceling it for scores of immigrants fleeing war and disaster.
Temporary protected status for immigrants from El Salvador is set to expire Wednesday, but the federal government hasn't said what it will do with those who hold that status.
Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador was in limbo Wednesday as a deadline neared for the Trump administration to decide if they should end, as it has done for hundreds of thousands from Venezuela, Haiti and other countries.
The Department of Homeland Security had said that decades-long TPS protection would expire for people from El Salvador on September 9th. Now they say it will remain in place until an announcement is made at "the appropriate time," leaving thousands of salvadorans in the DMV -- and across the country…
After more than two decades, temporary protected status (TPS) for Salvadorans was set to expire on Wednesday, Sept. 9, a move that would have left thousands of beneficiaries without immigration protection or authorization to work legally in the United States. U.S.
Temporary protected status for Salvadoran immigrants was set to expire Wednesday, but the Department of Homeland Security says the protections remain in place until the agency announces otherwise. Congresswoman Luz Rivas, who represents California's 29th District, says the uncertainty is taking a to…
Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador were in limbo Wednesday as a deadline neared for the Trump administration to decide if they should end.
MIAMI -- Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador were in limbo Wednesday as a deadline neared for the Trump administration to decide if they should end, as it has done for hundreds of thousands from Venezuela, Haiti and other countries.
