2023-06-20 23:20:00
Miami, Jun 20 (EFE).- Civil and pro-immigrant groups urged US President Joe Biden on Tuesday in Miami (Florida) to urgently implement a new Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation that protects to those fleeing “poverty and repression” in Nicaragua and avoid their deportation.
More than twenty pro-immigrant activists demonstrated this afternoon in front of the offices of the Immigration and Citizenship Service (USCIS) in Miami to denounce the policy of harassing the undocumented by Florida Governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, and to ask to Biden the “redesignation” of TPS to “provide relief to thousands of Nicaraguan immigrants.”
“It is time for you, Mr. President, to act and stop being a coward,” Berta Sandles, one of the people who protested Biden’s delay in expanding the TPS program for Nicaraguan migrants who suffer “due to the deterioration of conditions” in the Central American country.
Under black umbrellas reading “TPS Now” and holding banners, protesters urged Biden to grant a new TPS designation “if he doesn’t want his legacy to be leaving thousands of people without any immigration protection and in hands of the xenophobic and deportation agenda of governors like DeSantis”.
The organizers said in a statement that “Nicaragua has seen a record number of citizens migrate, mostly to the US, to flee poverty and government repression” of the Central American country.
In this context, they criticized the fact that Biden made a “cowardly and limited” decision last week when “he only decided to extend the relief (from TPS) under the existing designation of Nicaragua,” which left out thousands of Nicaraguans who have been living in Nicaragua for decades. United States and that they are eligible for a new designation, they stressed.
The pro-immigrant groups explained that the so-called “redesignation” of the TPS is a tool that Biden can use to “provide relief to thousands of immigrants from Nicaragua”, by protecting them from deportation and granting them the benefit of employment authorization to support their families. families.
The vigil in front of the USCIS offices was organized by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC), Student Power Network and Seeds of Resistance, among other pro-immigrant groups. EFE
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