US employers told to fire foreign workers who are on the way to lose Temporary Protected Status

The Department of Homeland Security told US employers to fire all those foreign workers who are now losing their ‘Temporary Protected Status’. The direction came as the Supreme Court recently upheld the Donald Trump administration’s authority to end the TPS for Haiti and Syria. Some companies have fired such employees, but some were waiting as the Supreme Court’s ruling would not take effect for about 30 days.But the list of such country which are on their way to lose the TPS is long.The work permits of Haitians with Temporary Protected Status will expire on July 24. Such permits will also lapse on July 17 for those from Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, according to notices issued for each affected country by the USCIS.The five other countries collectively have about 20,000 TPS holders. USCIS had been extending work authorization in short increments. The agency had previously set the expiration date for July 1 and then extended it last week to July 10 for all the countries. On Friday, it did so again. The DHS on Friday temporarily extended work authorization for Haitians and other migrants covered by TPS just hours before permits were due to expire, but this is only temporary and comes as employers across industries continue dismissing workers whose legal status has lapsed or is expected to end.The government notices to employers cited the Supreme Court decision, saying that the federal courts were expected to “align” with the high court’s ruling in favor of the administration.The continuous shifting of dates created confusion among the businesses and many fired the employees even before the extension.

What is TPS?

The US government has been giving this protection to people from countries affected by natural disasters or war. The program has been in place since 1990. The Donald Trump administration put a stop to it and withdrew the status from countries one by one, citing that the situation in those countries improved and the nationals should now go back home.