Trump wants to preserve almost a million legal immigrants

Ending deportation protections for immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which has grown to include over 860,000 individuals under the Biden administration, has long been a goal of president-elect Donald Trump. TPS, which is now available to inhabitants of at least 16 countries experiencing natural disasters, armed conflict, or other unusual circumstances, permits individuals to temporarily reside and work in the United States. Each nation may receive TPS from the secretary of homeland security for a maximum of 18 months, renewable. The TPS designation of a few nations, like El Salvador, is about to expire in March. Trump may be able to begin lowering the number of TPS holders if he orders his homeland security secretary to refrain from renewing TPS for these nations. Simply refusing to renew TPS protections when they expire is the most obvious course of action (and the one Trump took during his first term). Trump attempted to remove TPS protections for around 400,000 inhabitants of Haiti, El Salvador, and Honduras, among other nations, during his first term in office. Advocates for immigrants filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in 2018. A federal judge temporarily prevented Trump from following through while legal battles played out, and litigation continued well after Biden took office.