NEW CAP Report Shows GDP Loss Could Be $164 Billion State-by-State Breakdown Here 11/6/17 Decision deadline for 59,550 Hondurans and Nicaraguans: 17 DAYS 11/23/17 Decision deadline for 50,000 Haitians: 34 DAYS 01/08/18 Decision deadline for 195,000 Salvadorans: 80 DAYS A recording of today’s press call is available here. In a press call this morning, economic, legal, and policy...
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11/6/17 Decision deadline for 59,550 Hondurans and Nicaraguans: 18 DAYS 11/23/17 Decision deadline for 50,000 Haitians:35 DAYS 01/08/18 Decision deadline for 195,000 Salvadorans: 81 DAYS The Catholic News Service reports that the Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration, Bishop Joe Vasquez, is urging Americans to advocate for an extension of Temporary Protected Status...
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Decision Deadline for Hondurans: 18 Days Away Decision Deadline for Salvadorans: 81 Days Away Letter Notes That TPS Recipients: Contribute $648 million/year to Social Security & Medicare Essential To Harvey, Irma Reconstruction Efforts Pay taxes, register with DHS Home countries in dire straits, cannot receive recipients Led by Senators Ben Cardin...
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The government of Haiti has written to the Trump Administration to formally request an 18-month extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Haitians living in the United States. The request, reported in the Miami Herald, was signed by Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States and delivered to the...
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CHC meeting shows Kelly to the perfect pitchman for the radical Trump agenda During a meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus this afternoon DHS Secretary John Kelly signaled the following: DACA threatened: The future of DACA, the program that has unlocked opportunities for nearly 800,000 Dreamers, will be...
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Yesterday, DHS Secretary John Kelly announced a 6-month extension of temporary protected status for Haitians living in the US, which means that some 50,000 Haitians will be able to stay in the United States until at least January 2018. It was the right move, and a testament to the...
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Over the weekend, immigrants and advocates in Miami demonstrated outside a USCIS office in support of a renewal of temporary protective status for Haitians, waving signs, dancing, chanting, and playing music. Protesters held signs reading “save TPS”, “Haitian lives matter”, “unity makes strength”, and “TPS is liberty”. The Trump...
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Frank Sharry: “another example of DHS letting ideology – and not facts – drive the policy-making process” The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of DHS, is gathering negative information on Haitians in the U.S., presumably to justify a controversial decision expected soon...
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It’s as if Trump is looking for ways to remove as many brown people from the country as possible. Yesterday, we wrote about how Trump is seeking the deportation of 4,000 Somali asylum seekers and refugees even though their home country is still too dangerous to return to. Today, we’re...
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Say what you will about President Obama, but something is undeniable: When it comes to immigration his administration has been consistent in speaking from both sides of its mouth. Take the case of Haiti, for example. After last year's devastating earthquake Obama promised at the United Nations that the...
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