Biden extends deferred deportation for 900,000 immigrants

US President Joe Biden has extended the suspension of deportation for 900,000 immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine and Sudan. This was reported by Reuters on January 10.

It is specified that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) extended registration in the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for these countries, granting these immigrants a deferral of deportation and access to work permits for another 18 months.

According to Todd Schulte, president of advocacy group FWD.us, the extension will allow hundreds of thousands of people to continue "contributing to their communities, supporting their families, and strengthening the economy."

The agency emphasized that the move would delay any attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to repeal these protections.

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Earlier, on December 22, US President-elect Donald Trump, during his speech at the Turning Point USA conference in the state of Arizona, promised to close the country's border to illegal migrants on his first day in power and announced the largest deportation of migrants in US history.

CNN reported that day that Trump's team was exploring ways to abolish birthright US citizenship. In private conversations, his allies are working on strategies including ordering the State Department not to issue passports to children born to undocumented parents and tightening requirements for tourist visas to combat birth tourism, the story said.

In February, Fox News reported that during the presidency of current U.S. leader Joe Biden, 7.2 million undocumented migrants have entered the United States, more than the population of any of the 36 possible states.