The administration announced on January 8 that approximately 200,000 TPS recipients from El Salvador will lose their work permits and protected status in September 2019. This decision follows the recent TPS terminations for Sudan, Nicaragua, and Haiti. FCNL urges Congress start working immediately to ensure stability for all current TPS recipients and their families.
Hannah Graf Evans, FCNL’s legislative representative on immigration, stated,
“This administration has now set up over a million immigrants for expulsion with no guarantee that Congress will pursue long past due legislative reforms. Congress must enact a pathway to citizenship by the end of the month for immigrant youth who grew up in this country and face an unknown future. In response to this most recent TPS cancellation, we once again urge Congress take up the baton and stabilize families and communities home to TPS recipients as well.
“Any TPS recipient who has roots in this country, would face undue hardship if deported – including family separation – or would otherwise be eligible for status adjustment should have a permanent pathway forward to stabilize their futures and their families. We urge members of Congress to co-sponsor legislation that fulfils these goals and to work in a bipartisan manner to enact it.”
The Friends Committee on National Legislation, the oldest registered religious lobby in Washington, is a nonpartisan Quaker lobby in the public interest. FCNL works with a nationwide network of tens of thousands of people of many different faiths from every state in the U.S. to advocate for social and economic justice, peace, and good government.
