WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of 110 members of Congress today called on President Donald Trump's Administration to reinstate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of immigrants living legally in the country from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti.

"We believe that the warnings that the then secretary (of State Rex) Tillerson ignored (in 2017) require reconsideration," the legislators wrote in a letter addressed to the current secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.

The congressmen refer to the warnings of diplomats about the consequences of the withdrawal of TPS for those countries, such as the fact that mass deportations could destabilize the region or trigger a new wave of illegal immigration.

Also, the different US embassies in those nations have warned that withdrawing the TPS could have an impact on the interests of US foreign policy; and put at risk the safety of the people who were enjoying them and their children, many of them US citizens.

"Given the implications (...) we strongly urge you to revoke the recommendation of your predecessor and carry out a thorough review of the decision-making process that led to it," said the congressmen in his letter.

Despite evaluations by experts, the Department of Homeland Security decided to suspend the legal status of some 2,500 Nicaraguans and more than 50,000 Haitians in November 2017, followed by the termination of the TPS for more than 257,000 Salvadorans and Hondurans in January and May. of this year.

The TPS is a migration program created in 1990 with which the United States grants residence permits in an extraordinary way to nationals of countries affected by armed conflicts or natural disasters.