The Department of Homeland Security requires U.S. employers to fire foreign employees who lose Temporary Protected Status.
The Department of Homeland Security has asked US employers to fire all foreign workers who are now losing their “temporary protected status.” The trend came as the Supreme Court recently upheld the Donald Trump administration’s authority to end TPS for Haiti and Syria.
Some companies fired those employees, but others were waiting because the Supreme Court ruling would not take effect for about 30 days.But the list of these countries that are on their way to losing the temporary protection system is long.Work permits for Haitians with temporary protected status will expire on July 24. These permits will also expire on July 17 for those coming from Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, according to notices issued to each affected country by USCIS.The other five states combined have about 20,000 TPS holders. USCIS extends work authorization in short increments. The agency had earlier set the expiration date at July 1 and then extended it last week to July 10 for all countries. On Friday, she did it again. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday temporarily extended work authorization for Haitians and other immigrants covered by TPS just hours before the permits were set to expire, but that’s only temporary and comes as employers across various industries continue to fire workers whose legal status has lapsed or is expected to expire.
The government’s notices to employers cited the Supreme Court’s decision, saying federal courts were expected to “concur” with the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the administration.The constant changing of dates has created confusion among companies and many of them have sacked employees even before the extension.
What is a temporary protection system?
The United States government has provided this protection to people coming from countries affected by natural disasters or wars. The program has been in place since 1990. The Donald Trump administration halted it and withdrew the status from countries one by one, stating that the situation in those countries had improved and citizens should now return home.
