Protect TPS for Syrian Refugees
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) asks you to contact your elected officials and call for the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syria. TPS for Syrian nationals expires March 31, 2018, and is fast approaching. Let the Trump administration know that these gross violations of human rights are not acceptable!
Violent conflict, intimidation of civilians, crumbling infrastructure and gross human rights violations continue to plague Syria. Civilians are routinely targeted by both government entities and opposition forces, and a lack of successful investigations has allowed human rights violations to persist. ADC has been at the forefront in the fight for TPS for Syria, as well as other countries.
Already, over two dozen U.S. Senators including Senator Brown and Senator Merkley support TPS redesignation and extension for ten countries including Sudan, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen.
68,000 TPS recipients came to the U.S. as children, and roughly 273,000 U.S.-born children have a parent with TPS status. This is not just a humanitarian concern; it is also detrimental to the American economy. Ending TPS would cut $45.2 billion in GDP and a loss of $6.9 billion in Social Security and Medicare contributions. Because TPS recipients do not have traditional immigration status, they are held hostage to the whims of the Trump administration.
ADC Wants to Hear From You
Are you a national who is a TPS beneficiary? Do you have a story to tell? Submit your experience to ADC at policy@adc.org.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designates TPS to foreign countries in which conditions are unsafe for nationals to return or in conditions where a country is unequipped to support the return of its nationals. Conditions such as natural disasters and on-going conflict may warrant DHS to designate a foreign country for TPS.
TPS expiration dates often arrive before a country has stabilized after a natural disaster or before an armed conflict in a country has ceased. Allowing the TPS designation to expire would mean sending TPS beneficiaries back to countries where their lives are in jeopardy.