2026-09-17 · NBC News Top Stories
🔮 Twenty-eight years later, his life is divided between paperwork, community hearings, and a family full of love and varying immigration statuses: Palma, who lives in Houston, has U.S. citizen children — two of whom are still young — and a wife who’s a legal permanent resident, and he’s a beneficiary of Temporary Protected Status, which allows eligible immigrants from certain countries to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation.
As the national coordinator of the National TPS Alliance, Palma has been answering a lot of questions from Salvadorans with TPS: Their immigration protections were set to expire last week, but the Department of Homeland Security announced that Salvadorans will retain TPS protections — including work authorization — for now until an announcement is made at a later date. assertive
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