Migrants in the US with temporary status must seek permanent residency or leave the country, says secretary

US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally to kick off the Great American State Fair celebrating the 250th anniversary of US independence, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., US, June 24, 2026.
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Migrants living in the United States with temporary protected status should seek permanent residency or return to their home countries, he said on Sunday (28) the US Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin.
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"Either try to fill out the documentation to remain here with permanent status, or we will help you return to your country," said Mullin in an interview with CNN's State of the Union program.
The statement comes amid the tightening of the Donald Trump government's immigration policy, which has sought to reduce the forms of temporary protection granted to immigrants.
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In recent months, the administration announced the end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some groups of foreign nationals, and the Supreme Court has cleared the way for these measures to move forward.
➡ TPS is a program that allows citizens of countries affected by war, natural disasters, or other humanitarian crises to live and work temporarily in the United States while conditions in their countries make it unsafe to return.
The benefit, however, it does not guarantee automatic access to permanent residency (the green card), and the Trump administration has been trying to restrict its reach and end protections granted to certain groups of immigrants.
Recently, the United States Supreme Court cleared the way for the government to withdraw TPS from thousands of Haitians and Syrians. Before that, the administration had already revoked the protection granted to some Venezuelans benefiting from the program.
Last month, the government also partially withdrew from a guideline that determined that immigrants in a temporary situation should leave the United States to apply for a green card, starting to allow exceptions in cases considered extraordinary.
With information from the news agency Reuters.

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