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Migrants with temporary legal status ask Biden for help before Trump takes office

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Temporary Protection Status allows immigrants to temporarily remain in the U.S. if they're from countries designated as unsafe.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to revoke the program upon taking office.

There are 850,000 TPS holders as of March 2024 with around 350,000 Venezuelans , 200,000 Haitians and 180,000 Salvadorans making up the largest group.

Sens. Dick Durbin , Cory Booker , Catherine Cortez Masto , Tammy Duckworth , Mazie Hirono , Ben Ray Luján and Alex Padilla asked the president to redesignate and extend TPS for all eligible countries.

Currently, the U.S. has conferred the status on nationals of El Salvador , Honduras , Nicaragua , Haiti , Nepal , Sudan , South Sudan , Somalia , Yemen , Syria , Venezuela , Burma , Cameroon , Ethiopia and Ethiopia .