Lives In Limbo Waiting For Congress To Act Following Trump’s Termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 300k+ Legal Immigrants Countdown to TPS Decision Deadline for Yemen and Somalia: 6 Weeks In the 20 days since the Trump Administration ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 legal immigrants...
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Tasnim News Agency: “Central Americans Are Fleeing Violence in Higher Numbers: UNHCR” A new assessment from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) calls into question Donald Trump’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 legal immigrants living in the United States, including from Honduras, Nicaragua,...
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Emails Detail Administration’s Mission to Deport All Immigrants According to reporter Jorge Rivas at Splinter, Trump officials actively looked for reasons to deport Haitians before terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti. The discovery comes after reports exposed how the Trump Administration ignored the warnings of diplomats when they terminated TPS for six countries and...
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In an op-ed distributed by the Tribune News Service, Héctor Figueroa, President of 32BJ SEIU, laments on the severe consequences that follow Trump’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 300,000 people working legally in the U.S. 32BJ SEIU is the largest property services union in the nation. The op-ed is...
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Los Angeles Times: “On eve of Mother’s Day, immigrant activists make a plea to keep families together” Yemen TPS Decision Deadline: July 5, 2018 Somalia TPS Decision Deadline: July 19, 2018 This weekend, as families gathered nationwide to celebrate Mother’s Day, immigrants and activists rallied to keep families together, protesting the Trump...
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WaPo: U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants. Trump officials did it anyway. Reuters: Top Trump aide says protected immigrants need path to citizenship A recording of the press call is available here. Following Chief of Staff John Kelly and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s comments surrounding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) as well as Donald...
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Last week, the Trump Administration ended another TPS program – for Hondurans – despite reports from in-country diplomats, obtained by the Washington Post, that warned against doing so. This termination comes after 13 reviews and extensions across four other Republican and Democratic Administrations. Of the eight programs up for extension since Trump became President, this Administration...
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Former Ambassadors from Honduras and Panama Speak Out Against the Administration’s Termination of Honduran TPS Program Last Friday, the Trump Administration unjustly ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras. In an op-ed with the Washington Post, former Honduran Ambassador, James Nealon, and former Panama Ambassador, John Feeley, denounce the Administration’s decision and spell...
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May 9, 2018
published on May 9, 2018; updated July 27, 2018 Datessss s Country Population* Extension or Terminated Extension Ends/ Termination Begins Original Designation Date Number of Extensions 5-24-17 Haiti 58,557 6-month extension 1-22-18 1-12-10 4 9-21-17 South Sudan 77 18-month extension 5-2-19 11-3-11 3 10-11-17 Sudan 1,048 12-month termination 11-2-18...
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Trump reportedly ignored embassy cables with advice from senior U.S. diplomats regarding the deportation of immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Last night, the Washington Post released a breaking article by Nick Miroff, Seung Min Kim, and Joshua Partlow that exposes the Trump Administration ignoring senior U.S. Diplomats’ advice to not deport over...
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