Immigrant Rights Essay
How to you Include TPS in the Fight for Immigrant Rights
As a DACAmented Salvadoran immigrant, I am grateful for the momentum and support Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has gained over the last few months. The uncertainty we have lived with since 45 was elected has been draining to say the least. We’ve received support from from national organizations, CEO’s and U.S. citizens. However, the lack of support and inclusion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) makes me nervous and upset. For decades, TPS has protected undocumented immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Excluding TPS beneficiaries from our conversations and fight for immigrant justice puts the lives of immigrants at risk.
It is disheartening to learn how many immigrant rights activists and advocates don’t even know what TPS is. TPS is designated to undocumented immigrants living in the United States at the time their country of origin experienced a horrific natural disasters. The United States helps those countries to recover by granting a work permit renewable every 18 months to immigrants from the countries affected. For example: Salvadorans living in the United States at the time two …show more content…
However, this has never been the case in the fight for immigrant rights. For too long Central American and immigrants from Afro descent have been erased and forgotten. This erasure has lead to many injustices and crimes committed to these community go unheard of and ignored. For example, TPS beneficiaries have been living in uncertainty since May 24, 2017 when the Trump administration only gave a 6 month extension to Haitians. Why didn’t the nation express their outrage then? Why didn’t allies march across the their cities for our Haitians brothers and sisters? Why did they ignore this
As a DACAmented Salvadoran immigrant, I am grateful for the momentum and support Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has gained over the last few months. The uncertainty we have lived with since 45 was elected has been draining to say the least. We’ve received support from from national organizations, CEO’s and U.S. citizens. However, the lack of support and inclusion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) makes me nervous and upset. For decades, TPS has protected undocumented immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Excluding TPS beneficiaries from our conversations and fight for immigrant justice puts the lives of immigrants at risk.
It is disheartening to learn how many immigrant rights activists and advocates don’t even know what TPS is. TPS is designated to undocumented immigrants living in the United States at the time their country of origin experienced a horrific natural disasters. The United States helps those countries to recover by granting a work permit renewable every 18 months to immigrants from the countries affected. For example: Salvadorans living in the United States at the time two …show more content…
However, this has never been the case in the fight for immigrant rights. For too long Central American and immigrants from Afro descent have been erased and forgotten. This erasure has lead to many injustices and crimes committed to these community go unheard of and ignored. For example, TPS beneficiaries have been living in uncertainty since May 24, 2017 when the Trump administration only gave a 6 month extension to Haitians. Why didn’t the nation express their outrage then? Why didn’t allies march across the their cities for our Haitians brothers and sisters? Why did they ignore this