No sign on how DHS plans to handle Guatemala’s TPS request

Published July 8, 2018 1:00pm ET



The Department of Homeland Security has made no indication of how it plans to respond to a late June request from Guatemala, formally asking the U.S. for Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, following a volcano that struck the Central American country on June 3.

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced on June 25 Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel had requested TPS from the U.S. government.

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