After hundreds of thousands of unlawful overseas nationals had been launched into the nation via new parole packages created by the Biden administration, at the very least a million had been granted short-term protecting standing (TPS) from deportation exterior of those parole packages. They embody residents of nations of overseas concern with ties to terrorism.
As of Sept. 30, 2024, roughly 1,095,115 overseas nationals had been granted TPS, in keeping with a new report from the Congressional Analysis Service.
They’re residents of Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Lebanon, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and Yemen.
As violence escalated in opposition to Israel, the Biden administration additionally granted TPS to Palestinians and Lebanese nationals.
TPS was granted as President Joe Biden continued to extend nationwide emergency orders citing nationwide safety threats associated to terrorism, threats posed by Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria, and different international locations, overseas threats associated to weapons of mass destruction, and Islamic threats that escalated below his administration, The Heart Sq. reported.
The Secretary of Homeland Safety grants TPS, arguing the legislation provides discretion to take action. TPS can final for six to 18 months, however is commonly prolonged. For instance, an unknown publicly reported quantity from Liberia have been granted TPS since 2017, in keeping with the report.
Each time TPS is granted, DHS points an announcement explaining the phrases. For instance, on Oct. 11, DHS extended TPS status to unlawful overseas nationals from El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan via March 9, 2025.
These registered via this system are permitted to maintain submitting extensions. A re-registration course of is at the moment underway for Salvadorans via March 9, 2025.
These receiving TPS are granted deferred enforced departure (DED) standing, a brief, discretionary, administrative keep of removing. It “emanates from the President’s constitutional powers to conduct overseas relations and has no statutory foundation,” CRS explains.
Amongst these granted TPS and DED are 834,000 who illegally entered the U.S. or overstayed their visa and are illegally residing within the U.S., in keeping with the CRS report. The standing prevents them from being deported and grants them work authorization, which critics argue takes jobs away from People and drains taxpayer assets related to welfare providers they obtain.
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Massive numbers of TPS overseas nationals residing within the US embody:
- 260,790 Haitians granted prolonged TPS via Feb. 3, 2026;
- 256,625 Venezuelans granted prolonged TPS via April 2, 2025;
- 248,775 Venezuelans redesignated TPS via March 3, 2026;
- 52,585 Hondurans whose TPS termination was rescinded and prolonged;
- 63,425 Ukrainians granted prolonged TPS via April 19, 2025.
Moreover, an unknown variety of Palestinians and Lebanese have been granted TPS and DED via August 2025 and January 2026, respectively, in keeping with the CRS report.
Initially, TPS was granted to 74,500 Afghans via Nov. 20, 2023. Nonetheless, in keeping with a number of stories and considerations raised by the U.S. Home Committee on Homeland Safety, no course of was put in place to take away them as soon as TPS ended.
In line with the CRS report, solely 9,630 Afghans are at the moment granted TPS via Might 2025.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to finish TPS, which was established by Congress within the Immigration Act of 1990, which former president George H. W. Bush signed into legislation.
In 2017 and 2018, Trump’s DHS terminated TPS designations for residents of Central American international locations. In response, two class motion lawsuits had been filed. In September 2020, the ninth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals overturned a decrease courtroom’s injunction and permitted the TPS designation to be terminated. Biden reversed Trump’s insurance policies and expanded TPS authorizations.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
