After the mother of two young children was released, Rivas and his wife remained close to the family. “We now feel like the children’s grandparents, because we still have a close relationship with her, looking after her and looking after the children,” he says.
Caring for the two children made Rivas acutely aware of the scale of what he has agreed to. If immigration enforcement ramps up in Hyattsville, a small city where more than a third of the population is Hispanic, he could be called upon to care for many children at once
Such fears have been further exacerbated by the uncertainty surrounding TPS, a program Congress created in 1990 to protect immigrants who cannot safely return to countries affected by armed conflict, natural disasters, or other extraordinary conditions. El Salvador was the first country designated for TPS in 1990 due to its civil war, and that protection was renewed in 2001 after the country. Since 1990, more than 170,000 Salvadorans have been granted TPS status, becoming one of the largest groups protected by the program.
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