Tell Congress: Roadmap Needed to Protect Temporary Protected Status Recipients

From the American Friends Service Committee (http://www.afsc.org):

This week, the Trump administration announced that it would renew the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Syria but not re-designate the country for protection. Though the decision leaves in place protections for the nearly 7,000 Syrians who currently have TPS, it unfortunately leaves out anyone who entered the U.S. after August 2016, despite the ongoing devastating civil war in Syria.

Call Congress today, and tell them we need a solution that creates a roadmap to legal permanent residency and citizenship for TPS recipients and millions of other immigrants in the U.S. Alternatively, you can call directly–find contact information:

• Senator Robert Casey: http://casey.senate.gov
• Senator Pat Toomey: http://toomey.senate.gov
• Your Representative: http://www.house.gov

The Trump administration so far has ended TPS for Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Sudan, and left TPS holders from Honduras uncertain about the fate of their status. This latest decision, made as the U.S. remains militarily engaged in Syria, doesn’t go nearly far enough to protect people fleeing the conflict.

We have a moral obligation to speak out against this cruelty. Trump’s decisions so far could tear 200,000 U.S. citizen children from their TPS-holding parents, and send hundreds of thousands of people to countries that are still recovering from natural and humanitarian disasters. Many TPS holders have been here for decades and have become vital members of our communities. They have built careers and businesses and are part of local, state, and national economies. TPS communities deserve better.

It is not too late for us to achieve long-term victory for TPS recipients.

Next week, the National TPS Alliance will convene here in Washington for a national mobilization to call on Congress to save TPS. Please join us to defend this life-saving program.

Contact Congress today, and urge them to work toward a solution that creates a roadmap to legal permanent residency and citizenship for TPS recipients and millions of other immigrants in the U.S.