Dem senator urges Biden to extend protections for illegal immigrants before Trump admin: ‘Nobody is safe'

A Democratic senator is calling connected the Biden medication to widen deportation protections and enactment permits for amerciable immigrants successful the U.S., up of what is expected to beryllium a historical wide deportation run by the incoming Trump administration.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., said successful a post connected X that "President Biden has the powerfulness to support migrant families, and I’m calling connected him to usage it."

She pointed to the usage of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which is simply a presumption administered by the Department of Homeland Security that allows nationals who are surviving successful the U.S. already to get enactment permits and beryllium shielded from deportation. 

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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto holds a Border Patrol situation coin arsenic she speaks astir Republicans abandoning the bipartisan borderline woody during the Senate Democrats property league successful the U.S. Capitol connected Feb. 6, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

TPS grants extortion to nationals from countries considered unsafe to instrumentality them to. It has been utilized broadly by the Biden administration, including to support hundreds of thousands of nationals from Haiti and Venezuela.

Meanwhile, the Biden medication has sought to supply further safeguards for those protected from deportation via the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. That programme benefited amerciable immigrants who came to the U.S. arsenic minors.

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"They are portion of our communities, and what the president tin bash is conscionable instrumentality ineligible enactment to widen their TPS statuses," Cortez Masto said connected MSNBC connected Tuesday. "But it's not conscionable our TPS recipients. My anticipation is that the president, successful the past 2 months, besides rapidly processes our DACA recipients applications. We request to marque definite our dreamers besides person the quality to enactment here, proceed to beryllium a portion of the state that they grew up in."

The archetypal Trump medication sought unsuccessfully to extremity DACA, and reduced the usage of TPS. In the adjacent administration, it is expected to either terminate TPS for galore nationalities oregon let them to expire without renewal.

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Cortez Masto highlighted the Trump campaign’s committedness to motorboat a wide deportation run arsenic a rationale for the hold of TPS and further DACA protections.

"They're going to prosecute successful wide deportation and nobody's safe," she said. "So that's wherefore I'm asking the medication to travel successful and instrumentality enactment that they tin present to support immoderate of the migrant community, TPS recipients and DACA recipients, marque definite that astatine slightest we're bringing certainty to them and keeping their families together."

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The Biden medication moved connected TPS arsenic precocious arsenic October, erstwhile it some extended and redesignated TPS for Lebanese nationals – meaning that caller nationals not initially covered could use for protection. 

The Department of Homeland Security estimated that astir 11,000 Lebanese nationals would beryllium eligible nether some TPS and Deferred Enforcement Departure – a akin usage of enforcement authorization administered by the president.