🇺🇸 영어 원문
The future of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, and the legal status of 270,000 people who still have it, is at risk after a big Supreme Court ruling last week. The court’s ruling allowed the Trump administration to move forward with cancelling TPS for two countries, Haiti and Syria. But it also underscored that the secretary of homeland security decides whether to grant someone this status, or end it, and it’s not up to the courts to weigh in. That gives the administration space to strip this status from hundreds of thousands of more people.
The Trump administration has already terminated TPS for 10 countries, so far affecting more than a million people. Four countries still have TPS designations, but they’re set to expire later this year: Lebanon, El Salvador, Sudan, and Ukraine. Julia Gelatt, associate director of U.S. immigration policy at the Migration Policy Institute, noted that the number of people who have TPS will likely continue to decline. About 330,000 people, mostly from Haiti and a fraction from Syria, are immediately affected by the recent ruling.
Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide protection from deportation for people, regardless of legal status, whose countries are unsafe to return to because of political instability, war, natural disasters, and other factors. The homeland security secretary can grant this designation to people from specific countries for a period of 6 to 18 months; those granted TPS also get a permit to legally work in the U.S. Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, an immigrant advocacy organization, emphasized that these are people who have been building their lives here for over a quarter century, and there is no precedent in modern immigration history for revoking status for a population like that.
Data provided by DHS as of March 31 of last year shows that over a quarter of a million people could still be on active TPS designations. The administration has criticized the TPS program, arguing that such status is meant to be temporary. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said people on the program can or should have tried to apply for other forms of legal status to stay in the U.S., such as green cards, or should leave the U.S. entirely.
🇰🇷 한국어 요약
이번 주 대법원의 중요한 판결로 인해 ‘임시 보호 지위 (TPS)’ 프로그램의 미래와 여전히 이 지위를 가진 27 만 명의 사람들이 위험에 처하게 되었습니다. 이 판결은 하와이와 시리아에 대한 TPS 취소를 허용했지만, 동시에 국경 보안 장관이 이 지위를 부여하거나 종료할 권한이 있음을 강조했습니다. 이는 행정부가 더 많은 사람들에게서 이 지위를 박탈할 수 있는 여지를 남겼습니다. 이미 10 개 국가에 대해 TPS 가 종료되어 100 만 명 이상이 영향을 받았습니다. TPS 는 전쟁이나 자연재해로 인해 본국으로 돌아가기 위험한 사람들에게 추방으로부터 보호하고 합법적으로 일할 수 있는 권리를 주기 위해 1990 년에 만들어졌습니다. 하지만 많은 이민 옹호 단체들은 수십 년간 미국에서 삶을 구축해 온 사람들의 지위를 박탈하는 것은 현대 이민 역사에서 전례가 없는 일이라고 비판하고 있습니다.
🔑 핵심 단어 (Vocabulary)
- Temporary Protected Status (TPS) – 임시 보호 지위 – Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide protection from deportation.
- Supreme Court – 대법원 –
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration’s effort.
- Deportation – 추방 –
TPS provides protection from deportation for people whose countries are unsafe.
- Legal Status – 법적 지위 –
The future of the legal status of 270,000 people is at risk.
- Administration – 행정부 –
The Trump administration has already terminated TPS for 10 countries.
- Designation – 지정 –
The secretary can grant this designation to people from specific countries.
- Instability – 불안정 –
People cannot return because of political instability and war.
- Precedent – 선례 –
There is no precedent in modern immigration history for revoking status.
- Terminate – 종료하다 –
The administration has terminated TPS for several countries.
- Advocacy – 옹호 –
FWD.us is an immigrant advocacy organization.