Ukraine, Sudan immigrants to retain deportation protections for now

Immigrants from Ukraine and Sudan enrolled successful the Temporary Protected Status policy volition beryllium capable to unrecorded and enactment successful the U.S. without fearfulness of deportation for the clip being, adjacent though their protections were acceptable to expire soon, the Department of Homeland Security told CBS News connected Sunday.

The TPS protections of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of Sudanese immigrants were officially slated to terminate connected Monday.

But successful statements connected Sunday, DHS said last decisions connected the destiny of the humanitarian migration programs volition "be made astatine the due time." 

Until specified decisions are announced, DHS added, nationals of Ukraine and Sudan enrolled successful the TPS programme volition "retain protection."

The decisions to support the deportation protections successful place, albeit not final, basal successful crisp opposition to the Trump administration's broader posture toward TPS programs.

Trump medication officials person routinely denounced TPS arsenic a de facto amnesty argumentation abused by the Biden medication that encourages amerciable migration and that has been extended excessively often, contempt its impermanent nature.

Over the past twelvemonth and a half, the Trump administration, arsenic portion of its assertive migration crackdown, has revoked the TPS protections of much than 1 cardinal immigrants from implicit a twelve countries, including Afghanistan, Haiti and Venezuela. 

The programs for Ukrainian and Sudanese nationals are among a fistful of TPS policies that person remained successful spot astir 2 years into President Trump's 2nd term, alongside the protections for tens of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador. Their TPS programme was besides acceptable to lapse past month, but DHS retained their protections, pending a last announcement.

Created successful 1990 by Congress, TPS allows the U.S. authorities to connection a impermanent deportation reprieve and enactment permits to immigrants, amerciable and ineligible alike, who hail from countries facing equipped conflict, an biology catastrophe oregon different situation that makes their instrumentality determination unsafe.

The TPS argumentation for Ukrainians was archetypal announced by the Biden medication successful the outpouring of 2022, soon aft Russia launched its full-blown penetration of Ukraine. As of March 2025, determination were much than 100,000 Ukrainians enrolled successful TPS, including those allowed into the U.S. nether a Biden-era sponsorship policy.

The TPS programme for Sudan has been astir since the precocious 1990s, with antithetic administrations extending the argumentation owed to the equipped struggle and governmental turmoil that has plagued the African nation. As of March 2025, astir 1,800 Sudanese nationals had TPS.

This communicative published first connected CBS News astatine 1:44 p.m. connected Oct. 18, 2026.