Overview

• Protections will lapse in roughly 60 days, after which Syrians without another legal status could face arrest and deportation.
• Homeland Security urged TPS recipients to depart voluntarily and directed them to use the CBP Home smartphone app for self-deportation.
• DHS cited its assessment that nationals can return and labeled Syria a long-running hotbed of terrorism, stressing that Temporary Protected Status is meant to be short-term.
• Government data counted nearly 4,000 current Syrian TPS beneficiaries as of March, while a Federal Register notice referenced more than 6,000 who have held the status since 2012.
• The move fits a broader push by the Trump administration to unwind TPS for several countries, an effort already facing multiple lawsuits from immigrant advocates.