US grants deportation reprieve to migrants from Ukraine and Sudan — SkimNews
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- DHS kept temporary protected status in place for about 101,000 Ukrainians and 1,800 Sudanese past Monday's expiration deadline, saying a final announcement 'will be made at the appropriate time' without specifying how long they can stay.
- Yuriy Boyechko, CEO of Hope For Ukraine, called the reprieve a 'last-minute patch' that 'does not solve the real issue,' urging a permanent residency path and arguing displaced Ukrainians cannot safely return amid the war with Russia.
- Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies said the administration faces no deadline and characterized the decision as 'simply going to be an extension until it is a termination,' citing ongoing armed conflict in both countries.
- DHS did not clarify whether covered Ukrainians and Sudanese can keep their work permits, though TPS generally allows employment while protections remain in effect.
- The Trump administration has already terminated TPS for more than 1 million people from 13 countries — including Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and Syria — but similarly kept protections in place for nearly 200,000 Salvadorans about a month earlier.
- Ukraine was first designated for TPS in April 2022 after Russia's full-scale invasion, most recently by the Biden administration in January 2025 through October 2026; Sudan's TPS dates to 1997.
- The reprieve comes two weeks before midterm elections that will test Trump's hard-line immigration policies at the ballot box.
Why it matters: With midterm elections two weeks away and over 1 million people from 13 countries already stripped of TPS, the administration is avoiding a politically visible cutoff for 103,000 Ukrainians and Sudanese — but by offering no timeline and no work-permit clarification, it leaves 103,000 people in legal limbo rather than a durable solution. Critics on both sides call it a 'last-minute patch' and an 'extension until it is a termination.'
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