From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, November 22nd.

It's the Brian Lairr show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen from the WNYC and Gothamus 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 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.

It's a temporary protection from deportation from foreign nationals who are from certain

countries that have been designated for TPS. So it does provide

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