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The 'Right and Just' Move: Moms Applaud Restoration of Temporary Protected Status to Immigrants from Haiti

May 24, 2021
Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Donna Norton, Executive Vice President of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the Biden-Harris administration decision to re-designate Temporary Protected Status to immigrants from Haiti:

“The Biden-Harris administration made the right and just decision by re-designating Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) this weekend. America’s moms support this action because we are determined that our Haitian neighbors, friends and colleagues be allowed to remain with their families and in their jobs, especially at this time when it is clearly not safe for them to return to Haiti.

“Moms recognize that immigrants are frontline and essential workers who are essential to our recovery from the pandemic, and who make our communities, our economy, and our country immeasurably stronger. That is why we are urging the administration to provide TPS for Cameroon, Mauritania, Somalia, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Sudan, Nepal and Guatemala as well, while halting continued deportations to these countries and ending Title 42. And it is why we are demanding the U.S. Senate finally pass the Dream and Promise Act, to create permanent protections and a new path to citizenship for Dreamers and TPS-holders, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, to give farmworkers and their families a long-overdue opportunity to earn legal immigration, and the Citizenship for Essential Workers Act.

“This weekend’s action is just one step in ending the racism and brutality that became the hallmark of our immigration system under President Trump, and restoring the fairness, compassion and integrity our country wants. Completing the work to create a humane, functional immigration and asylum system, and to treat all immigrants with compassion, dignity and respect, must be a national priority.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.