The deadline for DHS to decide whether to extend TPS for El Salvador is due January 8, 2018. Join us in urging the administration to extend El Salvador’s TPS designation for at least 18 months.
El Salvador remains unable to adequately handle the safe return of nearly 200,000 Salvadoran TPS holders. In addition to continued acute food, water, and housing shortages, gang violence has reached unprecedented levels—the U.S. State Department reports that more than one in five families claim to have been the victims of violent crime. El Salvador still suffers from the highest murder rate in the world, and is plagued by gang conscription, sexual violence and human trafficking.
Not extending TPS for El Salvador places countless lives at risk of deportation back to life-threatening conditions and will tear TPS holder parents from their 172,000 U.S. citizen children. It would also separate families, devastate our economy, and destabilize regional security that drive displacement. The administration must extend TPS for El Salvador and pass a permanent legislative solution for all TPS holders. Failure to do so would be an affront to our American values of hospitality, generosity, and compassion.
Please call and tweet at your representatives and urge them to extend TPS for El Salvador for at least 18 months!
Sample Tweets:
- [@legislator] I call on you to make the right decision and to extend TPS for El Salvador for at least 18 months. #ProtectTPS
- [@legislator] I urge you to support TPS for El Salvador, and to find a permanent legislative solution for all TPS holders. #Faith4TPS
- [@legislator] 172,000 US citizen children have a Salvadoran TPS holder parent. Extend TPS, do not separate these families. #ProtectTPS
- [@legislator] Pledge your support for Salvadoran TPS and urge the administration to extend it by 18 months! #ProtectTPS
- [@legislator] TPS recipients are childcare workers, small business owners, gardeners, cooks, builders, & janitors. #ProtectTPS
Sample Facebook Posts:
“I’m your constituent from [CITY/TOWN], and I support Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, and I am calling to ask you to take a stand regarding the upcoming decision about TPS for El Salvador. I urge you to do everything in your power to see that the administration extends it for at least another 18 months, and to issue statements and make floor remarks supporting Salvadoran TPS holders. I call on you to demonstrate bold leadership and support a permanent, legislative solution that protects all TPS holders from being separated from their families. My community welcomes immigrants, and I urge you to reflect the best of our American values of compassion and welcome.”
Sample Phone Script:
“I’m your constituent from [CITY/TOWN], and I support Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, and I am calling to ask you to take a stand regarding the upcoming decision about TPS for El Salvador. I urge you to do everything in your power to see that the administration extends it for at least another 18 months, and to issue statements and make floor remarks supporting Salvadoran TPS holders. I call on you to demonstrate bold leadership and support a permanent, legislative solution that protects all TPS holders from being separated from their families. My community welcomes immigrants, and I urge you to reflect the best of our American values of compassion and welcome.”