Democrats Mount New Push for Probe of Protected Status Decisions

A group of Senate and House Democrats is increasing pressure on the State Department’s inspector general to probe the diplomatic agency’s role in the White House’s decisions to terminate temporary protected status designations for El Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Robert Menendez (N.J.) and leaders of the House foreign affairs and judiciary panels told Inspector General Steve Linick in a letter that they were “deeply concerned” that domestic political interests may have overridden the recommendations of senior State Department officials related to U.S. national security priorities and humanitarian interests in these countries.

The lawmakers’ renewed ...