The ripple effects reach well beyond Washington. In Nevada, home to roughly 6,000 Salvadoran TPS holders, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto joined Culinary Union leaders this month to press for an extension, with the union's Ted Pappageorge telling reporters the union has to "make sure" for its "TPS brothers and sisters." In El Salvador, the stakes cut the other way: remittances, driven largely by the U.S. diaspora, reached nearly $10 billion in 2025, about 24% of the country's GDP according to the Banco Central de Reserva, making any disruption to the flow of Salvadoran workers a domestic economic concern as much as a U.S. immigration one.
