FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

February 6, 2025

MEDIA CONTACT: 

e: jessica.myers@mail.house.gov

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Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) released the following statement regarding the Trump administration ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 1 million immigrants from multiple countries who are seeking refuge from political violence, war, natural disasters, and extreme weather events due to the impacts of climate change:

“I am devastated and infuriated to hear of the Trump Administration’s plans to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 1 million immigrants from over 17 countries, including Haiti and Venezuela. To deport individuals and their families back to countries facing escalating violence, war-torn conditions, and political unrest is cruel and inhumane,” said Rep. Yvette D. Clarke. 

“Make no mistake: President Trump has essentially issued a death sentence to many immigrants whose safety was promised under these protections. In the face of global migration growing into an unprecedented humanitarian crisis over recent years, TPS has persisted since 1990 as a necessary tool to safeguard our world’s most vulnerable peoples and to provide them with opportunities to pursue employment and build the lives they deserve. It is a legal method of extending the United States’ humanitarian efforts towards those most in need of them. Unfortunately and tragically, this administration has decided to weaponize and undercut TPS’s true purpose to further its despicable anti-immigrant agenda. And that is shameful beyond words.”

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