MSF: End of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans Puts Lives at Risk

Press releaseMSF: End of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans Puts Lives at RiskJanuary 08, 2018NEW YORK —The decision by the Trump Administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 200,000 Salvadorans living in the US threatens to directly endanger their lives, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. TPS allows temporary lawful status and work authorization in the US to people whose countries have been affected by armed conflict, natural disaster, or other extraordinary events.

Source: MSF News - January 8, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news