美国宣布萨尔瓦多移民暂时保留临时保护身份

US says immigrants from El Salvador will for now keep temporary protected status

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A Federal agent questions a man, who showed his Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and had came to the U.S. 25 years ago from El Salvador, during immigration removal operations in the Long Island town of Hempstead, New York, U.S., January 19, 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – The Trump administration said tens of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador will for ​now keep their temporary protected status that had been scheduled ​to expire on Wednesday.

Temporary protected status allows people already in the U.S. to remain in the country and work legally if their home countries are ​affected by natural disasters, armed conflict or other extraordinary conditions.

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“An ​announcement on El Salvador’s TPS will be made at ⁠the appropriate time. Until such announcement is made, Salvadoran individuals present ​in the U.S. under TPS retain protection,” the Department of Homeland ​Security said in a statement.

It did not provide information on when such a decision could be announced.

The National TPS Alliance advocacy group

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some 170,000 Salvadoran TPS ​holders live across the United States, with about 152,000 being ​in the U.S. workforce and contributing about $5.4 billion to the U.S. economy.

President Donald Trump’s administration ‌has ⁠moved to end temporary protected status for nationals from various countries as part of his broader immigration crackdown effort.

Trump has pursued an aggressive immigration crackdown and deportation drive that rights advocates condemn as being in ​violation of due ​process and ⁠free speech rights. Human rights advocates also say the crackdown has created an unsafe environment, particularly for ​ethnic minorities who have raised concerns about racial profiling.

Trump says ​his ⁠actions are aimed at improving domestic security.

While Trump campaigned in 2024 on stopping illegal immigration, his administration has also made legal immigration more ⁠difficult – for ​example, by imposing expensive fees for applicants ​of certain visas and by enforcing social media vetting for applicants and immigrants already in ​the country.

Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Kristina Cooke; Editing by Stephen Coates

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Kanishka Singh is a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Washington DC, who primarily covers US politics and national affairs in his current role. His past breaking news coverage has spanned across a range of topics like the Black Lives Matter movement; the US elections; the 2021 Capitol riots and their follow up probes; the Brexit deal; US-China trade tensions; the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan; the COVID-19 pandemic; and a 2019 Supreme Court verdict on a religious dispute site in his native India.

Kristina Cooke is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at Reuters focused on immigration and criminal justice. She was part of a team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2026 for a series on President Donald Trump’s campaign of political retribution. In 2025, she shared the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series on the fentanyl crisis. Her investigation with colleagues into migrant child labor in the United States was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2023, and a recipient of the Polk and other awards. She speaks English, German and Spanish and is based in San Francisco.