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I'm Bridget Bergen from the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom filling in for Brian today.

With President-elect Trump signaling this week through truth social

that he does intend to declare a national emergency and somehow use the military for mass deportations,

New York Congress members Adriano Espayat and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined with advocates outside

the Capitol for a press conference, calling on the Biden administration to provide

temporary protected status, or TPS, to Ecuadorian migrants. According to the Migration Policy

Institute, over half of the Ecuadorians in the U.S. live in the New York metro area, and some

77,000 live in Queens. Here's some of what Congresswoman Acacio-Cortez had to say.

As a representative of one of the largest Ecuadorian communities in the United States,

of one of the largest immigrant communities in the United States,

and of one of the largest Latino and densely Latino communities in the United States,

that these communities are so important

to our economic production, our cultural value, and who we are as a nation.

We'll hear more from the Congresswoman around the 11 o'clock hour.

But right now, joining me to talk about what TPS would provide and what she's expecting

from the Trump administration is Jessica Orozco Gutline, senior vice president for policy and

communications at the Hispanic Federation, a national Latino advocacy group with offices here in

New York, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, and D.C. Jessica, welcome to WNYC.

Hello. Good morning. How are you? Doing well. Great to have you. I'm wondering if you could

start by talking a little bit about temporary protected status, you know, how it works. Sure. So

temporary protected status is basically what it sounds like.

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