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A late-June U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively allows the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status from any nationality. That puts more than 100,000 TPS recipients in Texas at risk of being expelled from the country.

The decision focused specifically on Haitian and Syrian immigrants, but legal experts say it could apply to as many as 1.3 million immigrants in the U.S. on TPS, including those in Texas.

The 1.6 million number marks the largest-ever effort to strip permissions for immigrants who attempted to migrate to the country through legal means, advocates say.

A bipartisan group says President Biden should use executive authority to grant longtime undocumented immigrants temporary protection from deportation and work permits.

North Texas immigrant advocates are welcoming the Department of Homeland Security’s decision that grants Temporary Protected Status to Cameroon, but say it should have happened sooner. The designation for the Central African country allows Cameroonian nationals to remain and work in the U.S. for 18 months.

Erika Murillo wakes up at 3 a.m. to get to her job — taking orders from hospitals and restaurants on everything from hospital gowns to napkins — by 4 a.m.…