After nearly a year of New York pols shouting from the rooftops for President Biden to grant work permits to over 110,000 migrants in the city, the White House late Wednesday night took a big first step in answering their calls by extending and redesignating Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela.
The president’s move extends Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which the Department of Homeland Security can grant to a group of nationals it deems unsafe from returning to their homelands, to Venezuelans already in the country who arrived here on or before July 31 of the year. It will allow some 470,000 Venezuelans already in the U.S. to immediately apply for work authorization and protect them from deportation for the next 18 months.
