Electeds Condemn Administration's Decision to End Temporary Protected Status for 200,000 Salvadorans

Engel Calls Administration’s Decision to End Temporary Protected Status for 200,000 Salvadorans "Cruel and Shortsighted"

  Congressman Eliot L. Engel today made the following statement on the Trump Administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the 200,000 Salvadorans living in the United States:

“I strongly condemn this cruel and shortsighted decision. Since 2015, Congress has worked in a bipartisan way to help countries in Central America get at the root causes of child migration. In addition to the basic inhumanity of this decision, it’s extraordinarily counterproductive for the President to deport families to El Salvador at a time when Congress is providing resources in the Northern Triangle to discourage children from making the dangerous trek from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border. Rather than follow the lead of Republican and Democratic Presidents alike in extending TPS, the President has chosen to tear families apart.”

CONGRESSMAN ADRIANO ESPAILLAT STATEMENT ON DECISION TO END TPS FOR SALVADORANS

  Today, Congressman Adriano Espaillat released the following statement following the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Salvadorans, with an 18-month deadline.

“I am deeply disheartened by today’s decision by the Trump administration to end TPS for nearly 200,000 Salvadorans,” said Rep. Espaillat. “Since day one, President Trump has prioritized attacking immigrants and tearing immigrant families apart. Today’s decision is unfair and cruel for the nationals of El Salvador who have built lives, paid taxes, contributed to the economy and raised families for nearly two decades in the United States.

“TPS was created as a humanitarian program to assist individuals following the violence of war and natural disasters in their homelands. However, today’s announcement creates an even greater humanitarian crisis by upending the lives and devastating the well-being of tens of thousands of families, and their U.S. citizen children by forcing these individuals into the shadows or risk being deported to one of the most violent places in the world.

“Ending TPS is not the answer, nor a solution, and I urge my congressional colleagues to pass legislation that would create a permanent solution to protect Dreamers and individuals with TPS to allow for permanent status and a pathway towards citizenship, once and for all.”

STATEMENT FROM BOROUGH PRESIDENT DIAZ

RE: President Trump's Actions on Temporary Protected Status

  "The Trump Administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of refugees from El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua is cruel and unnecessary.

"To turn our backs on hundreds of thousands of people that have built their life here and have make great contributions to this nation without offering a real alternative is madness, and shows an utter lack of compassion and caring for our fellow human beings. TPS should not be weaponized as a list to deport and divide families," said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.