A Bloomberg Law piece covers the first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed in federal district court in California Monday, which challenges the Department of Homeland Security’s termination of TPS for protected immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan. In a historic move, it’s filed on behalf of the US.. citizen children of TPS holders. Relevant...
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A POLITICO Pro piece by Ted Hesson reports that nineteen state attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders today, calling on lawmakers to pass legislation to allow for Salvadoran and Haitian TPS holders to remain in the country. The signers include attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland,...
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Nearly 10,000 TPS Holders in Nassau County, Long Island Facing Forced Deportation Long Island, NY – In the first installment of an ongoing series called “No Place to Call Home,” which aims to unravel the real-life impacts of stripping almost 10,000 Nassau County immigrants of their legal status, this piece aptly frames the...
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Los Angeles, CA – A piece in the Los Angeles Times reports on the tremendous pushback in Los Angeles, as Los Angeles city officials and organizers gathered outside City Hall on Wednesday to denounce Trump’s termination of TPS, and to offer strategies to protect impacted immigrants in a time of fear and anxiety for so many Californian...
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Chicago, IL – A Chicago Tribune piece highlights the life of Mauro Navarro, who fled his native El Salvador to seek refuge from a war-torn country here in the United States. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen announced in January that the program for El Salvador would be phased out by Sept. 9, 2019,...
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Denver, CO – The student-run CU Independent ran an in-depth piece on Rosa Cardoza de Gutierrez, one of fifteen University of Colorado Boulder employees from El Salvador who were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS). On Jan. 8, 2018, the Trump administration announced that it will end TPS for about 200,000 Salvadorans by Sept. 9, 2019....
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“I have a year and a half to do something,” told herself. Boston, MA – A Voice of America piece highlights the work of Doris Reina-Landaverde, a TPS holding 39-year old mother of three U.S. born daughters and custodian at Harvard University, for her co-founding of the Harvard TPS Coalition,...
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Philadelphia, PA — A Billy Penn piece tells the heart-wrenching story of Haitian family of four, three of whom came to the United States in January of 2010 as they were coping with the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. The husband and father, Samuel,* a food security analyst, stayed behind in...
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200k Salvadoran TPS Holders Now Face Deportation A Harvard Crimson piece highlights a rally held yesterday by the Harvard TPS Coalition, where Coalition members – workers from Harvard’s campus unions – sent a loud and clear message to the Trump Administration that workers and immigrants affected by the program’s termination are “Here to Stay,” a...
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A PBS NewsHour piece documents the fear and anxiety Salvadoran TPS holders currently face, and highlights the potentially devastating effects of this mass deportation of Salvadoran families. All of this, of course, is a direct result of the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for approximately 200,000 Salvadorans currently protected...
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