Sponsor
Wesley Hunt
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
The bill provides short-term procedural clarity and administrative savings while restoring discretion to DHS, but it ends TPS protections for nationals of five countries and removes a key humanitarian tool—creating significant deportation, work-authority, economic, and local-government impacts for affected immigrants and communities.
Immigrants with TPS get a temporary 180-day protection window during which DHS cannot remove them solely because TPS is ending, giving affected people short-term stability to seek other status.
Immigrants who secure independent lawful status (LPR, qualifying nonimmigrant, or asylum) can remain lawfully in the U.S. despite TPS termination, protecting those who successfully adjust status.
Congressional clarification of TPS duration and criteria (and statements that the Act creates no ongoing residency beyond the termination date) gives agencies and TPS beneficiaries clearer expectations and may reduce regulatory uncertainty across administrations.
Nationals of Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon with TPS will lose protection from deportation and work authorization 180 days after enactment, forcing many to leave, face removal, or become undocumented and causing immediate income and family hardship.
Ending TPS-based employment authorization causes immediate job loss risk for TPS holders and operational disruption for employers who rely on those workers, producing local economic harm and lost earnings for families.
Prohibiting future TPS designations removes a key humanitarian tool to protect people fleeing conflict or disaster, limiting the government's ability to respond to emergent overseas crises and increasing vulnerability for affected populations.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Ends TPS for nationals of Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon (180 days after enactment) and bars redesignation of those countries absent new law.
Official title: To amend section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to terminate Temporary Protected Status designations for certain countries.
Introduced January 6, 2026 by Wesley Hunt · Last progress January 6, 2026
Terminates Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon, effective 180 days after enactment, and bars future TPS designations for those five countries unless Congress passes a new law authorizing them. People who lose TPS must depart or obtain an independent lawful immigration status (for example, lawful permanent residence, a qualifying nonimmigrant visa, or asylum) by the termination date; those who remain without lawful status after that date become removable. Employment authorization based on TPS for covered nationals ends on the termination date and may not be extended. The Act preserves Department of Homeland Security (DHS) discretion to grant or deny other immigration benefits and makes clear it does not create any new entitlement to remain beyond the effective termination date; DHS is prohibited from removing people solely because TPS will be terminated during the 180-day wind-down period.