Nearly a million migrants in the US have been granted temporary amnesty by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
An 18-month expansion of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty was announced by Mayorkas this week.
The amnesty will cover 234,000 Salvadorean migrants who were first granted the status after 2001’s devastating earthquake in their home country.
It will also cover 600,000 economic migrants from Venezuela, and migrants from Ukraine and Sudan.
Mayorkas has massively expanded TPS amnesty during his tenure as head of the DHS.
In his final weeks, he has also expanded opportunities to allow foreign graduates to obtain white-collar jobs in the US, and to obtain green cards and citizenship.
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