Brian Laird on WNYC, and now we'll talk about one more way that Trump administration is seeking to cut the number of immigrants making homes here.

Temporary protected status, or TPS, is set to expire for

immigrants from seven countries, including Honduras, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and Nepal, as well as

Haiti, although that one's been blocked by a court, but is far from settled. The program which

gives migrants from designated countries legal work authorization and protection from deportation is estimated to cover tens of thousands of New Yorkers and their families, according to an estimate by the National Immigration Forum.

At the same time, the Trump administration is pursuing legal challenges to birthright citizenship.

We know more.

We know about that, raising other concerns about the rights and status of immigrants nationwide.

But we're going to talk about TPS with Laura Mukherjee, clinical professor of law and director of

the Immigrants Rights Clinic at the Columbia University Law School. Professor Markergy,

thanks for coming on. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you, Brian. Glad to be here. And listeners,

in our remaining time, we can take questions. These can be, you know, she can't give exact legal

advice on the radio, but she can talk in general about what people can do and what

people's rights are at this moment with respect to TPS that's expiring for you or someone you know.

212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-92 call or text.

Would you just very briefly, Professor,

remind everybody of what TPS or temporary protected status is

because this is different from, you know,

what gets so much press,

people being here undocumented out of status, right?

Absolutely, Brian.

So Congress established TPS as part of the immigration laws in 1990.

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