The Department of Homeland Security has announced on Thursday the extension of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from El Salvador and Nicaragua until January 2, 2020.
This temporary extension is due to the decision of a federal court in California, which has prohibited the Donald Trump government from eliminating, as it had decided, this protection status for Salvadorans and Nicaraguans.
If the decision of the court is known before January 2, 2020, and fails in favor of the Government, the protection of the TPS would be extinguished on the dates set forth before the legal action on April 2, 2019 for Nicaragua and 9, September 2019 for El Salvador. If the decision became known after those dates, the TPS would be extinguished 120 days after the judicial ruling was announced.
The TPS benefits 2,500 Nicaraguans and 257,000 Salvadorans. It also protects 86,000 Hondurans, who have not been affected by this judicial process; where appropriate, the TPS also expires in January 2020.
Telemundo News / February 28, 2019 / 5:15 PM EDT
