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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Boston, MA – On Monday afternoon, at a panel called “The Impact of the TPS Repeal on Campus: Harvard Workers’ Stories” at Harvard University, three Salvadoran TPS holders, including Julio Perez, a custodian at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Martha Bonilla, a dining hall worker, and Doris Reina-Landaverde, also a custodian, shared their...
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Fredericksburg, VA – Marcelo Fuentes was born in El Salvador, but fled the country to escape the civil war that left more than 75,000 people dead. Today, Marcelo lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He is one of nearly 200,000 Salvadorans living in this country under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). On Saturday, Marcelo and his...
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DHS Must Decide by May 5, 2018 Whether to Extend TPS for Hondurans A must-read NBC piece highlights the widespread political unrest and instability in Honduras, underscoring just how inhumane and problematic it would be if the Trump Administration doesn’t extend TPS for Honduran TPS holders past July 5th. Last week in New York City, activists...
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Boston, MA – A group of Haitian and Salvadoran TPS holders are suing the Trump Administration on the grounds that Trump’s decision to terminate TPS is illegally driven by racial discrimination. Two Massachusetts-based immigrant advocacy groups, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice and Centro Presente, are filing the lawsuit....
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