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Special protections for about 300,000 immigrants are extended amid federal lawsuit

People from six countries — El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras and Nepal — have been at risk of deportation after the Trump administration deemed those countries safe enough for return.
Activists and citizens with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) march near the White House for residency protections in Washington D.C. in September.

For the past four years, Elsy Flores de Ayala has lived in limbo — unsure whether the life she built in the U.S. would stay intact or if she would be deported back to El Salvador.

Flores de Ayala, who lives in Washington D.C., has been allowed to legally live and her native country unsafe to return.

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