Washington-Jose Cabrera took up work from his landscape work to join the three Latin democratic senators to a Wednesday press conference, calling Biden administration to renew protected statuses, just like his, before the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House.
Cabrera from Montgomery County, Maryland has been living in the USA for over 30 years and is protected against deportation and allows work permits. His homeland in El Salvador is considered too threatening to return, which gives him the designation Temporary protected statusor TPS.
He and other immigrants living in the United States are afraid that if they lose their protected status, they will be swept when Trump implements his promise of mass deportation campaigns.
Sense. Catherine Cortez Masto from Nevada, Alex Padilla from California and Ben Ray Luján from Nowy Mexico press Biden administration to redesign TPS for citizens from Nicaragua and Elugador, as well as to designate TPS for people from Ecuador.
TPS for El Salvador ends in March, and TPS ends in Nicaragua in July, after Trump took office on January 20.
“We know that the upcoming administration will try to implement the chaotic immigration policy that tear our families,” said Cortez Masto.
Members of the Congress of the Latin club also emphasized that the White House should direct the immigration agency of the US Department of Internal Security to accelerate the applications for renewal for people who were postponed for arriving children or DAC.
“It is time for this administration to ensure the renewal of their DAC status before they become threatened by Trump’s administration,” said Cortez Masto.
The White House could not be contacted immediately to comment.
Mass threat of deportations
Senators emphasized that Biden administration should take action, taking into account Trump’s oath in order to introduce mass deportations, focused on millions of immigrants without legal status. Deportations can easily include people from TPS if their status is not renewed.
TPS markings can last six, 12 or 18 months before their extension and cover over 1 million immigrants. The status does not offer citizenship path.
So far, 17 countries have TPS designation And it was used in cases that Ukrainians were running away from the Russian war in Ukraine.
Andrea Flores, vice president for immigration policy and campaign in the FWD.US immigration group, said that Biden should exploit TPS to protect people with status against the upcoming Trump administration.
During the first administration of Trump, the former president tried to end TPS for Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Sudan, but the courts He blocked these rehearsals in 2018.
“These people will now lose their legal status in the next administration. These people will be subject to mass deportations and will be returned to a country where persecuted will be guaranteed, “said Flores.
Padilla and Luján emphasized that mass deportations will not only harm the community, but also the US economy. US Senate Court Committee he carried out a trial on Tuesday about consistency mass deportations in which the Republicans indicated that they would go forward quickly when Trump took over the office.
“Mass deportations will threaten the safety and security of millions of mixed families, deep sowing (Mis) trust and fear in the communities that we represent, and undoubtedly destabilize the economy of the United States,” said Luján.
There are about 4 million mixed status families, which means family members with various immigration statuses.
Padilla said that those who have TPS and Daca work in key industries in the USA.
“Taking the authorization of work for hundreds of thousands of employees, we look at our own working strength,” he said.
If your face
Trump, who tried to finish DAC during his first administration, said during an interview with NBC on Sunday that “he would work with democrats on the set” to stop these recipients in the US closer data.
The program is currently waiting for a federal court Decide about his legal fate.
Thomas A. Saenz, president and general adviser to the Mexican American Legal and Educational Defense Fund, who, together with the state of New Jersey, defends Dac before the courts, said that dreamers should continue to apply for the extension “and not fear of renewal. “
“They should still look for renewal, even maybe earlier than they could try to extend the period in which they are protected,” he said in an interview with State Newsroom.
Cortez Masto said that she is always ready to work on the protection of dreamers, but she is skeptical about Trump’s comments.
“Last time he said it and we brought him into a double -sided bill to do something to protect our dreamers, he killed him,” she said.
Cortez Masto referred to a double -sided agreement in 2018 that sense. Mike was encircled by a Republican from southern Dakota and Angus King, regardless of Maine, what gave the recipients a path to citizenship, along with the financing of the border wall.
“The government has all our information”
Juliana Macedo to Nascimento, deputy director of the Federal Advocate at the Advocacy Group United We Dream Immigrant, said in an interview with States that she is concerned about immigration and enforcement of customs law, having access to information about DAC candidates through civic and immigration services USA, agency, agency, agency, agency, agency The agency, this agency processes legal immigration documents.
“We are really worried that he just will give a list of people who can go (and) to knock on their door,” she said.
Macedo to Nascimento, who is the recipient of the DAC, said that her organization asks the Biden administration to create a dam between the CEO databases and DHS agencies, such as ICE and American, and the protection of borders.
“The government has all our information,” she said. “They can potentially come, attract us at any time. This is the worst scenario. ”
Last updated 14:25, December 11, 2024
