BOSTON — Members of Congress are urging Gov. Charlie Baker to provide relief for immigrants who could lose driving privileges as a court fight over their legal status plays out.
In October, a federal judge put a hold on the Trump administration’s plans to stop renewing the legal status of 300,000 people living in the U.S. from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. Immigrants from those countries -- including an estimated 17,424 in Massachusetts -- were set to lose temporary protected status over the next year. Those who stayed in the United States could be at risk of deportation.
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