The beneficiaries of the TPS, illegal aliens to begin with, chose to ride their luck, hoping either that the temporary program would endure or that, if it ended, they could resume being illegal immigrants and avoid deportation (as most illegals do).
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El Salvador’s economy is bolstered by money transfers from the United States, which totaled $4.5 billion a year ago, far more than the “millions” Secretary Nielsen claims were sent in aide to that country to help fix it after the earthquakes. His administration announced that almost 200,000 people from El Salvador, many of whom have lived in this country since the 2001 earthquakes devastated their Central American nation, will no longer be welcomed in the U.S.as part of the Temporary Protected Status program. Without TPS, he says, his sisters would face the impossible choice of splitting the family to return, or risking living without legal status in the United States. Along with other concessions won thanks to the organizing of Salvadoran refugees and their supporters, TPS emerged as a partial and entirely inadequate response to this problem.
Salvadorans comprise the vast majority of immigrants covered under the program.
“It’s not a surprise that this is what the Trump administration wanted to do”, Kagan said of ending TPS for El Salvador.
If Congress fails find a compromise, 800,000 people covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will lose their protections March 5. He said a recent court decision has made it somewhat easier for people who have TPS to apply for other immigration statuses if they’re eligible.
Faced with this phenomenon, the Canadian Minister of Immigration, Ahmed Hussen, said in a press conference on Tuesday that the government has put a preventive plan in place, in case the Salvadoran citizens decide to take similar measures. Any person who has been in this country for more than 10 years and has done nothing wrong should be given the opportunity to become a citizen of the United States.
Now, campaign season has officially opened for the March 2018 midterms, and all parties are gearing up for the 2019 presidential vote.
“My husband and I will lose our TPS permits and I am afraid of what will happen to the home we bought over a decade ago and most of all I worry about my USA -born son, who is still a minor”, said Minda Hernández, a 32BJ member who has had TPS since 2001, in a statement.
Get right with the law, or go home.
Millions of Salvadorans rely on remittances from the United States; previous year some $4.5 billion was sent home. “Thus, under the applicable statute, the current TPS designation must be terminated”.
At the rally, sponsored by an East Boston immigrant rights organization called Centro Presente, politicians including Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Boston city councilors, State Representatives Adrian Madaro and Marjorie C. Decker, and community leaders such as Pastor Dieufort J. Fleurissaint assailed the decision. How is that in the United States’ interest? In his op-ed, Bishop Seitz cites the economic contributions of the recipients and said their absence, should TPS end for them, will be felt financially and directly in certain industries, such as home health care and construction, not to mention the loss of taxes they pay to the local and federal government. She wishes people would listen, inform themselves, and realize that TPS holders just want a better life for their families. Yet these populations remain marginalized from the mainstream discussion about immigration, upstaged by the Dreamers, who even Trump can admit appear to merit consideration.
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Trump reportedly described the homelands of migrants arriving in the U.S. as “sh*tholes” while at the White House on Thursday. Unless those who insist on such statutory language can be confident that the language will be adhered to – rather than ignored on humanitarian grounds and/or ad hoc “cost benefit” analysis – these legislators have no reason to make such deals. The bills would allow certain TPS holders to obtain permanent residency, a step on the path to citizenship. The streets of NY are the canvas for her Unapologetically Brown series. “We never thought this would end like this”. No wall, no more agents, just residency: now.
