Last year, about 1.3 million people from 17 countries were living with temporary protected status in the United States. The Trump administration has sought to end those protections for about a million people from 13 countries, making them potentially eligible for deportation.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the first terminations in February 2025. Among the first countries to lose status were Venezuela, Afghanistan, Cameroon and Nepal. Other terminations followed. People from several countries sued to keep their status, arguing that the administration violated the procedures for reviewing the conditions in each country before making a decision. Some were unsuccessful in the lower courts.
But a group of more than 300,000 Venezuelans who arrived in the United States in 2023 were given temporary relief after a federal judge in California blocked the termination of their status from taking effect. The Trump administration filed an emergency order with the Supreme Court, and in October, the court allowed the administration to cancel its protections for this group while the case continued. Others from countries including Haiti remained in legal limbo.
This year, the Department of Homeland Security revoked the protections of people from Yemen and Somalia.
The administration has not terminated the status of people from El Salvador, Lebanon, Sudan and Ukraine. Lebanon’s protections expire at the end of May, however, and the others will run out by the fall. The homeland security secretary can decide to extend these protections, though the Trump administration so far has not done so for any country.
