As lawmakers try to find a legislative solution to keep immigrant families together at the U.S.-Mexico border, an even bigger family separation challenge looms next year when thousands of parents with temporary residency status will face deportation and separation from their U.S.-born children.

The Trump administration has said it will terminate so-called Temporary Protected Status for nearly 60,000 Haitians in July 2019, more than 262,000 Salvadorans in September 2019 and 57,000 Hondurans in January 2020.

More than 273,000 U.S. born children have a parent with TPS from these countries, according to a report from the Center for Migration Studies, a think tank.

Democrats are trying to use those coming deadlines — when the families facing deportation must decide if they will leave with or without their U.S. born children — to pressure congressional Republicans to act on legislation to protect TPS recipients from that Hobson’s choice.

“We need to protect families, these TPS recipients came to the U.S. legally,” Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., who cosponsored a bill that would protect TPS recipients from deportation. “We have families being taken apart by the ridiculous enforcement of our laws that don’t prioritize the way they should be.”