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Jayapal says TPS cuts could upend immigrant households
She alleged that the Trump administration’s agenda has always been about “eliminating ALL immigration.”
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Fri, 01, May 2026
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal / Wikimedia commons
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, in her latest shadow hearing in the “Kidnapped and Disappeared” series, discussed “Trump’s Attacks on Temporary Protected Status (TPS).”
TPS is a designation that allows immigrants who are currently in the United States and unable to return to their home country due to armed conflict, environmental disaster or epidemic, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions, to remain in the country.
It has long been a program with bipartisan support and used by presidents from both parties to protect millions of immigrants from being forced to return to unsafe situations.
The U.S. Supreme Court is currently hearing a major case on TPS, reviewing whether Donald Trump can legally end protections for migrants from Haiti and Syria; a ruling expected by mid-2026 could affect over 1 million people.
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Lower courts have blocked parts of the policy for now, but conservative justices on the Supreme Court appear open to Trump’s argument that TPS decisions fall under executive power, setting up a potentially sweeping precedent on immigration authority.
In her remarks, Congresswoman Jayapal accused the Trump administration of “separating families, ripping breastfeeding babies from their mother’s arms, deporting U.S. citizens, tackling grandmothers, detaining the wives of soldiers who are prepared to deploy to war zones, and sending people home to possibly their death by ending TPS.”
Jayapal claimed that currently nearly 600,000 U.S. citizens, including more than 260,000 U.S. citizen children, live in households with TPS recipients.
Describing TPS recipients as an integral part of society and the economy, she added, “TPS recipients live in all of our neighborhoods, raise their families here, and help keep local economies running.”
She added, “TPS has also allowed hundreds of thousands of people to work legally, often in industries that are already experiencing severe labor shortages.”
In her remarks, Jayapal alleged that the Trump administration’s agenda was never just about the “worst of the worst” but has always been about “eliminating ALL immigration.”
This marked the eighth hearing in the series, each examining a distinct dimension of immigration oversight. Previous sessions have addressed issues such as Trump’s treatment of children and families, impacts on Minnesota and Chicago, detention abuses, family separations, third-country deportations, and concerns over due process.
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