U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Congressman Eliot Engel (NY-16), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today led a bipartisan group of 110 members of Congress in calling on the Trump Administration to reinstate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of immigrants legally living in the United States. The letter comes after the State Department released a series of internal documents showing the Trump Administration’s overtly political decisions to terminate TPS for El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22759-haiti-flash-tps-more-than-50-000-haitians-will-have-to-leave-the-usa.html despite warnings of grave consequences for the U.S. national security, TPS beneficiaries and U.S.-citizen children.

"We believe that the warnings that then-Secretary Tillerson ignored – that mass deportations could destabilize the region, trigger a new surge of unauthorized immigration, endanger our U.S. foreign policy goals, risk the safety of TPS beneficiaries and their U.S. citizen children and force the separation of families – require reconsideration," wrote the Members in their letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. "Given the implications.... we strongly urge you to reverse your predecessor’s recommendation and conduct a thorough review of the decision-making process that led to it."

The documents published by the State Department were some of the materials the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reviewed as part of its investigation into then-Secretary Rex Tillerson’s recommendation not to extend TPS for several countries in the Western Hemisphere for political reasons. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has also opened a review of the Trump Administration’s decision to terminate those TPS designations.

Download the letter and the signatories : https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/08-02-18%20RM%20Bicameral%20letter%20to%20Pompeo%20re%20TPS.pdf

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-24140-haiti-flash-diaspora-tps-lawsuit-of-the-naacp-against-the-dhs-is-reinforced.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22892-haiti-flash-tps-senator-campbell-at-the-head-of-the-haitian-temporary-relief-task-force.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23316-haiti-flash-usa-ultimate-reregistration-to-tps-you-have-60-days.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22799-haiti-flash-tps-there-will-be-great-pain-and-suffering-dixit-le-cardinal-sean-o-malley.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22784-haiti-tps-flash-canada-prepares-to-welcome-a-new-wave-of-asylum-seekers.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22781-haiti-flash-tps-reactions-multiply-against-the-decision-of-the-trump-administration.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22772-haiti-flash-tps-reaction-of-the-conference-of-catholic-bishops-of-the-united-states.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22769-haiti-tps-haiti-is-not-prepared-to-take-back-nearly-60-000-tps-recipients.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22759-haiti-flash-tps-more-than-50-000-haitians-will-have-to-leave-the-usa.html

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