In his final days before leaving office, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security made the decision to extend protections from deportation to thousands of illegal immigrants from Sudan, Ukraine, and Venezuela.

The DHS announced Friday afternoon that it would extend Temporary Protected Status authorizations for the three countries on the basis that their governments are not in a position to accept their citizens should the United States choose to deport them. Each country is governed by a dictator or faces war and other significant challenges to repatriating its citizens.