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

About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, barely a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with promises of hardline immigration policies.

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced it would extend Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine and Sudan for 18 months. Why it matters: The extensions protect immigrants before the start of the incoming administration,