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 January 29, 2018

Father Stripped of Temporary Protected Status, Family Considers Next Steps

The Trump administration is ending the program protecting around 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador.

An estimated 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador have until September 2019 to leave the U.S. or face deportation after the Trump administration decided to end the program that gave them Temporary Protected Status. We profile Juan Carlos Pineda, who has been in Arizona for over a decade and received TPS in 2001. Juan must now decide where he will go next and how that will affect his two American-born children.

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