Advocates of Salvadorans remaining in the United States must have felt relief recently when the Trump administration effectively stayed plans to terminate the endlessly renewed “Temporary” Protected Status that has shielded some 232,000 of them from deportation for two-plus decades.

By regulation, the Department of Homeland Security secretary’s failure to act on the latest Salvadoran TPS renewal provides TPS Salvadorans another six months in the U.S. and gives the Trump administration more time to contemplate when to terminate it. But terminate it they must, and here is why they would be justified in doing so.

It’s unclear if the White House or the president’s Cabinet again bought the repeated narrative that advocacy lobbyists and the media were selling: that it is immoral to deport Salvadorans into chronic unemployment to face extreme persecution from the (extremely popular) democratically reelected President Nayib Bukele’s government. But for the next six months, the White House and all Americans can expect to hear pro-illegal immigration activists selling an argument straight from the playbooks of American divorce lawyers: that ending TPS unjustly separates TPS-protected Salvadorans from the indulgent American “lifestyle to which they’ve grown accustomed.”

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