NEW YORK (EFE).
Beneficiaries of the Temporary Protection Status (TPS) in Massachusetts, United States, They celebrated yesterday that the bill that would give them permanent legal residence and a path to citizenship has been presented again.
Ana Alonzo, member of the Massachusetts TPS Committee, Recalled that the Tepesians have been able to continue in this country after the Trump Administration tried to put an end to the migratory benefit, as a result of three years of intense struggle in the court that is not yet over.
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key points There are 42,000 Hondurans who still have the benefit that has allowed them to work and live in the northern nation for almost 20 years. The current enlargement was extended until next October by the administration of former President Donald Trump. |
But the picture is now much more positive, especially after Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin announced on Monday that the Context for Protecting Countries Under Repression and Emergency (Secure) project had been re-introduced in favor of the tepesianos.
The current designations of TPS for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and Nicaragua expire on October 4, and the Biden government has already renewed that of Syria, which expired on March 31.
Alonzo recalled that the beneficiaries of the TPS they have been waiting for more than 20 years for legislative action to grant them permanent residence, after which they can opt for citizenship. “It’s been more than 20 years that the Tepesian community has been working, paying taxes, they are business owners, employees considered essential, they have contributed to this economy for more than 20 years,” the activist said.
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400,000 people from a dozen countries and who came to the US escaping natural disasters or violence and persecution have obtained TPS. |
the TPS, Created by legislation in 1990, has given a temporary legal residence that now, according to the National Immigration Forum, Includes more than 400,000 people from a dozen countries and who came to the United States escaping natural disasters or violence and persecution.
“These people have complied with all legal processes for 20 years” and every few months they take their fingerprints and if they have a “pending case with the law they do not renew the TPS“, Remembered.
In his first day as president, on January 20, Biden proposed a comprehensive immigration reform project, still to be submitted to Congress, by which the “Tepesians” as well as the “dreamers” could obtain permanent legal residence and three years later citizenship.
In Massachusetts, the largest number of beneficiaries of the TPS they are the Salvadorans, a number that reaches 5,000 immigrants, Followed by 2,700 Haitians. It is estimated that the parents of 4,200 children born in this state are children of Salvadoran Tepesians and a thousand have Haitian parents who benefit from this program.
On February 23, the Tepesians plan a march in Washington that will take them to the Federal Capitol to demand the approval of the “Context of protection of countries under repression and emergency.”