McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Senate Democrats in Washington on Monday asked the Biden administration to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) be extended to migrants of four Central American countries from where most are migrating to the U.S. Southwest border.
The request was made to re-designate TPS for migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. And for the first time, they are asking that Guatemalan migrants also be granted TPS.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the senators cited worsening humanitarian conditions across Central America, as well as rising coronavirus cases and multiple natural disasters, including back-to-back hurricanes and drought, have led to a surge of migrants from the region to flee North to try to claim asylum in the United States.
“The crisis in Central America is urgent,” reads the letter from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez, of New Jersey, and 32 Democratic colleagues. “The effects of the natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic have profoundly exacerbated food insecurity, violence, and led to rising social tensions. Forced displacement continues to plague the region.”
“The crisis in Central America is urgent. … Forced displacement continues to plague the region.”
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Democrats say drought has led to food insecurity and farmers in the region face the worst dry farming season in 35 years, according to the World Food Program.
Over 8 million people in 2021 went hungry, up from 2.2 million in the region in 2018, WFP reports.
TPS is a humanitarian tool that allows Congress to provide relief for those unable to return to their countries due to extraordinary conditions.
“The Biden administration must act and provide certainty for eligible individuals from Central American during this challenging moment. These temporary designations would give the U.S. government more time to partner with governments and civil society in the region to ensure that the return of a large number of individuals to Central America does not create further instability and volatility,” according to the letter, which was signed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, both California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, and both New Mexico Senators Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich.
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DON’T THINK SO !!!!!
How about protecting legitimate American citizens from the continual invasion of illegal immigrants who threaten our well-being???
#1. Nobody should believe ANYTHING from this treasonous socialist Democrat Party or from their news/political propaganda outlets!!
To Democrats, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant,
If the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them.
Democrats will just make up their own, Truth, Facts, Reality, History or voter tally to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
IF “they have to be granted this protection” because of covid, violence, gangs and the like, WHY THEN IS THIS NATION “Safe” for them, when WE HAVE much MORE violence and gangs. MUCH MORE Natural disasters (when you add in the quakes and tornados), and JUST AS MUCH COVID as they do…
the nation is lost.
IF we become apathetic, it certainly will be lost.
rising coronavirus cases and multiple natural disasters
Bringing in infected Illegals and putting Legal Citizens in danger ?
IT certainly seems like OUR GOVT cares more for illegal invaders and criminals, THAN WE US Citizens..
The greatest crisis the demonic rats are facing is not having enough illegal votes to win so they just ship more in until they have met their quota.