What's TPS? An explainer on the immigration program
By: News 12 Staff May 6, 2018, 8:50pm Updated on: May 6, 2018
Temporary protected status is the U.S. immigration program that protects people who would face extreme hardship if forced to return to their homelands.
Half a million immigrants living in the U.S. could lose the protections as the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security review the countries that are covered.