Expert: No "Immediate" Deportation

Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact, Oct. 3, 2024

"Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole do not provide people a pathway to citizenship. So, people with humanitarian parole or Temporary Protected Status must use another avenue — such as asylum, marriage or employment — to gain legal permanent residence. That leaves people who have these protections in a "precarious non-permanent status" that can expire or be ended by the president, Reisz said. In November 2017, for example, Trump tried to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Legal challenges halted the termination. Trump is again promising to revoke Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status, if elected. If protections expire or are terminated, people revert to the status they had before these protections, Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of University of California Los Angeles’ Center for Immigration Law and Policy said. And people who don’t have a legal basis to stay in the U.S. would have to leave the country or be subject to deportation, Reisz said. But that deportation wouldn’t be immediate, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a Cornell University  immigration law professor. "They would all have a right to a removal hearing before an immigration judge to determine whether they have some right to remain here, such as asylum," Yale-Loehr said. That could take years because of immigration court backlogs."