The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Today, the Obama administration granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to undocumented Haitian immigrants living in the United States for the next 18 months.

TPS is a kind of temporary immigration status that is put in place when the homeland of immigrants are deemed unsafe or dangerous, often due to war or natural disasters like the earthquake that devastated Haiti.  It gives immigrants of that country greater ability to work in the United States and travel back and forth between the U.S. and their home country.