Trump Ends Protection For 200,000 Salvadoran Immigrants The Trump administration handed down br the order Monday, which forces those Salvadorans who currently have Temporary Protected Status to return to their homeland by Sept. 2019. Homeland Security Salvadorans were originally granted TPS following a 2001 earthquakes that killed nearly 1,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 homes. Previously, past presidents, like br Barack Obama and George W. Bush, had extended TPS protections for br El Salvador every 18 months.