Washington, October 29 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a group of Democratic senators, led by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, are urging the Biden administration to expand and extend temporary protected status, or TPS, for Haitians as thousands continue to flee to the United States. 

Haiti’s current TPS designation expires in February.  The Biden administration has continued to mass deport Haitian asylum seekers, including children, despite widespread shortages of food, water and other vital resources.

In other news, hundreds of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal who have temporary protected status, or TPS, are at risk of deportation after negotiations with the Joe Biden administration to expand the relief collapsed earlier this week. 

Talks had been ongoing for over a year as part of litigation demanding the U.S. government redesignate TPS for more than 260,000 people.  In 2020, a federal appeals court reversed an injunction from 2018 that had blocked termination of their relief.  That decision is not yet final as plaintiffs await another hearing, but people could lose their protections as early as the end of this year if the Biden administration continues to defend the Trump-era decision.