ELSY: Oimos acerca del TPS Y la oportunidad de quedar trabajando legamente en Estados Unidos.

MacLean: What do you understand about the intent of the TPS statute?

KOVARIK: The temporary protected statute was created by Congress in order to give temporary relief to individuals in the United States.

MacLean: When you read that, I noticed that you emphasize temporary.

Was there... Is that correct?

KOVARIK: Temporary?

It does say temporary?

Yes, I emphasized it.

MacLean: And is there a reason that you emphasize temporary?

KOVARIK: Because it's not a long-term legal status, it's a temporary status.

MacLean: I want to understand more clearly the process that the agency goes through and making various TPS determinations that have occurred.

Can you start by just giving you a high-level overview of the process?

KOVARIK: Where would you like me to start?

MacLean: Um, at the beginning, KOVARIK: Uh, as the statute lays out, at least 60 days before the end of the initial period of designation, the Secretary has to make a decision.

So my office kickstarts, an interagency review process in advance of that 60 days.

ANDERSON: The initial steps would be to reach out to Department of State to request country conditions.

Also to the research unit within USCIS that also prepared a country conditions report.

Looking at conditions in the country is very important part of both the TPS review process and initial designations.

PRELOGAR: We use the information provided to then create a decision memo.

RAMOS: Will the secretary sign this memo?

CISSNA: Yeah, the Secretary would circle whatever option they want, and then sign their name next to it.

ANDERSON: I believe that a review of currently existing conditions in the country designated for TPS is an important part of considering whether the designation should be extended or terminated.

SAGET: Alright, and currently existing conditions would not necessarily have existed at the time of the initial designation.

Correct?

US LAWYER: Objection, you can answer... ANDERSON: Yes, current conditions would not have necessarily existed at the time of the initial designation.

ELSY: Decian que el pais aun no estaba preparado para nosotros.

Nacio Joanna.

Luego Juancito.

Veiamos que el TPS seguia.

CHILD: Hi ELSY: Empezamos a ver ya en establecernos mas en este pais.

(overlapping chatter) JOANNA: I remember the day my brother and I went to school as a normal routine.

And then I received a phone call from my sister.

I could hear the shakiness in her voice.

She could barely get her words out.

MARIA: I was like, Oh my God.

Trump said he wants all of us out.

BERMAN: We're just learning that moments ago the Department of Homeland Security said it will end the temporary protected status for people who came to the United States from El Salvador... REPORTER: Administration officials contend El Salvador has recovered from the 2001 earthquakes and argue it's time for those citizens to return home.

The choice facing most of them is really whether they go into the shadows and become unauthorized immigrants or whether they go back to El Salvador.

JOANNA: I would think that my parents my sister would possibly be deported and like because I am a US citizen I would be here alone with my brother.

Come on, Juan!

(overlapping chatter) JUANCITO: I have two choices... To stay here or go with my parents in El Salvador and that's a tough choice.

Trying not to cry.

Hold on.

My parents raised me once I was born and I don't want it to end because-because I love them.

JUAN: Esta es la calle 16 NW.

Todo derecho aca, todo recto Podemos llegar directo a la casa blanca.

Somos vecinos.

Que nos den la oportuidad.

De cumplir nuestros suenos y objetivos.

y nuestro sueno es estar aqui en este pais y luchar con nuestra familia.

DURBAN: We have a group that have temporary protected status in the United States because they were the victims of crises and disasters and political upheaval.

The largest groups El Salvador, and the second is Honduran.

And the third is Haitian.

And when I mentioned that fact to him, he said, "Haitians do we need more Haitians?"

Calling the nations they come from [deleted]-holes.

TAYLOR: When Donald Trump came in, we had any number of issues, life or death, homeland security issues that needed to be addressed.

If you think of it as an apple pie, and let's say it's in eight slices, each of those slices is an equally important mission, whether it's National Emergency Response, whether it's fighting terrorist plots, whether it's intelligence, whether it's what the Secret Service does, and protection to the President and foreign dignitaries, and on and on down the list defending the nation against cyber attacks.

And then border security and immigration is one slice of the pie.