The Trump admin. put 'electoral calculations' over national security and immigrants' safety when it pushed to end a longstanding program protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants despite warnings from career diplomats and State Dept. officials.
The Trump administration put"electoral calculations" over national security and immigrants' safety when it pushed to end a longstanding program protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants despite warnings from career diplomats and State Department officials,The administration ignored recommendations to phase out the Temporary Protected Status program, or TPS, in a few years and instead decided to accelerate immigrants' departures so they wouldn't be taking place around...
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sought the investigation to examinefor people born in El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti. TPS allows immigrants in the country, including those who arrived or stayed illegally, to remain and work in the U.S. if their home countries are experiencing catastrophic events such as natural disasters or wars. Currently, 400,000 people have TPS.Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images file
For almost 20 years, previous administrations from both parties have renewed the TPS status of hundreds of thousands of people, until
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