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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 17th, 2024
Contact:
Media Inquiries Contact: press@alianzaamericas.org
United States (773) 638-4278
El Salvador +503 7803 8465
Maria Bilbao mbilbao@afsc.org 786-470-5773
Paul Namphy pnamphy@fanm.org 954-851-2525
January 17th, 2024 — In the final days of the Biden Administration, immigrant rights groups are angry at the President's refusal to use the full power of the Executive Branch to protect hundreds of thousands of immigrants by redesignating TPS for countries like Nicaragua, Honduras, Haiti, and Ecuador. President Biden's inaction leaves more than a million Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Haitians, Guatemalans, and Ecuadorians without an immigration status. Once more, President Biden broke his promise to do everything he could to keep families together.
When President Biden won the 2020 elections, he promised a more humane immigration system and the rolling back of President Trump's brutal policies. While President Biden issued executive orders aimed at helping mixed-status families and created the Haitian, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) humanitarian parole programs, he still has not used the full force of the Executive to protect immigrant families.
On the eve of an incoming administration that has announced a cruel immigration agenda, including the immediate termination of the CHNV parole program, the hundreds of thousands of people who came through a legal pathway will quickly face the threat of deportation.
The same arguments that justified the creation of the CHNV Parole are the strongest possible arguments for the redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for these countries.
As a final act of justice, President Biden can redesignate TPS for these countries and protect more than 400,000 people from deportation, which will lead to a bleak future at best and their death at worst.
Congress is deeply divided on providing a path to permanent protections for undocumented immigrants. Lawmakers cannot agree on a legislative solution, which is why immigrant communities have pinned their hopes on President Biden. The Executive Branch can redesignate, designate, or extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and designate Deferred Enforced Departure (DED).
Immigrant rights organizations are clearly committed to protecting families across the United States. At a time of fear, our communities will continue to unite, organize, educate, and defend each other. The fight for permanent protection is not over. Directly-impacted families and their allies will continue to advocate until a just reform is achieved.
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Alianza Americas is the premier transnational advocacy network of Latin American migrant-led organizations working in the United States, across the Americas, and globally to create an inclusive, equitable and sustainable way of life for communities across North, Central and South America.
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