🏠USCIS terminates Temporary Protected Status for 800,000 immigrants

The Immigration and Nationality Act grants presidents unilateral authority to designate countries for Temporary Protected Status based on armed conflict, natural disasters, or extraordinary circumstances. Trump's termination of TPS for 800,000 people requires no congressional approval, court review, or evidence that home country conditions improved.

Approximately 273,000 American-born children have TPS-holding parents who now face deportation to countries they fled decades ago. These mixed-status families must choose between family separation and abandoning American citizenship, creating humanitarian crises for citizens who committed no violations.

TPS recipients work legally in construction, healthcare, and agriculture throughout the United States, often in jobs Americans avoid. Their deportation creates massive labor shortages in essential industries while eliminating billions in tax revenue from workers who cannot be easily replaced by domestic hiring.

Countries receiving TPS designation—Haiti, El Salvador, Venezuela—typically face genuine crises making return dangerous. Trump's mass terminations ignore ongoing violence and disasters, using immigration status as leverage in broader political battles rather than responding to actual humanitarian conditions.