Biden extends protections for immigrants from four destabilized countries

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-11 23:17:16 | Updated at 2025-01-16 05:48:07 4 days ago

Biden extends protections for immigrants from four destabilized countries
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | January 10, 2025 | Gillian Barkhurst

Posted on 01/11/2025 3:07:44 PM PST by CedarDave

As a second Donald Trump presidency approaches, President Joe Biden extended protections for about 1 million immigrants Friday, allowing them to legally remain in the U.S. for another 18 months. The Temporary Protected Status applies to people already residing in the country from embattled Venezuela, El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine.

That includes an estimated tens of thousands of immigrants living in Albuquerque.

While there aren’t accurate counts for refugees and others with protected status in Albuquerque, the city estimates that there are 20,000 undocumented immigrants in Albuquerque.

Biden extended TPS for about 600,000 Venezuelans and 230,000 Salvadorans across the U.S. In New Mexico, while the majority of immigrants are from neighboring Mexico, there is still a “significant” population from Venezuela and El Salvador, said Santa Fe Dreamers Project Executive Director Miles Tokunow.

TPS lasts 18 months and is intended to protect people from being sent back to countries experiencing civil conflict or environmental disaster. For those displaced from their homelands for longer periods of time, such as Venezuelans fleeing from the autocratic government of President Nicolás Maduro, TPS provides no such relief. Maduro was recently sworn in to his third consecutive six-year term in a disputed election. He’s been in power for more than 10 years.

In the shadow of President-elect Trump, legal experts and immigrant advocates say this move is more important than ever.

“It is also crucial, given the gravity of the incoming administration’s promises of mass deportation,” said American Civil Liberties Union New Mexico staff attorney Rebecca Sheff. “Here in New Mexico, we understand that our communities are stronger when all our neighbors can live without fear and build stable lives for their families.”

Both local and congressional Democratic leaders lauded the extension.

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Thank you very much and God bless you.

I wonder how many of those estimated 20,000 in Albuquerque are involved in the city's on-going rampant crime, especially gangs, drugs, gun-related assaults, etc.

I hope that Trump's ICE will identify, capture, detain and deport those criminals no matter opposition by the Dem mayor and our radical left-wing governor.

1 posted on 01/11/2025 3:07:44 PM PST by CedarDave

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2 posted on 01/11/2025 3:10:03 PM PST by CedarDave (New tagline under development)

To: CedarDave

Can Trump undo Biden’s effort to harm the US?

To: ActresponsiblyinVA

As long as SCOTS back him, yes.

Deep State destabilizes these countries.

Causes them to leave. Gov’t funded NGOs fly them in, feed and house them, future voters.

Destruction of the West continues.

China figured out no need to have an actual war. Just get leftists elected and they’ll destroy the nations for you.

4 posted on 01/11/2025 3:14:11 PM PST by TigerClaws

To: CedarDave

:: involved in the city’s on-going rampant crime, ::

And that will be the reasoning behind Trump’s deportation of these same immigrants.
Stay an extra 18 months but commit NO (none, zip, zilch, nada) crimes
Up to and including jay-walking and sidewalk spitting.

5 posted on 01/11/2025 3:15:52 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")

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