By Karina I. Guzman

On Monday, January 8, 2018, the Trump Administration announced that it would not renew Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for Salvadoran and other nationals. As a result, “more than 200,000” noncitizens from El Salvador will be forced to leave the United States. Tal Kopan, Trump Admin Ends Protections for 200,000 Salvadorans, CNN (Jan. 8, 2018). These noncitizens have until September 9, 2019, to get their affairs in order and leave the United States, a home many have known for seventeen years. Id. Although the program is titled “temporary,” TPS for Salvadoran nationals has been anything but. Salvadorans have been allowed to build a life in the United States since 2001, when an earthquake devastated their country. Miriam Jordan, Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave, N.Y. Times (Jan. 8, 2018). So why end TPS now? . . .