Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson
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Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson issued a pointy rebuke of the Trump administration’s current determination to revoke Non permanent Protected Standing (TPS) for a whole bunch of hundreds of migrants, calling the transfer “shameful” and “un-American.”
In a press release launched Friday, Gibson mentioned the coverage change—which impacts migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela—would disproportionately affect communities of colour and weaken the social material of immigrant neighborhoods all through the Bronx and past.
“The Trump Administration’s decision to revoke the temporary legal status of over half a million migrants is a nefarious attempt to distract from policy failures and further undermine communities of color,” Gibson mentioned. “Targeting our most vulnerable groups is shameful and un-American. This destabilizing move will make our communities less safe, not more. Our neighbors who hail from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela deserve far better than this, and The Bronx stands united with them and all other immigrant groups that have been targeted by this administration.”
Non permanent Protected Standing is a federal program that enables migrants from sure international locations experiencing armed battle, pure catastrophe, or different extraordinary situations to dwell and work legally in america for a restricted interval. The administration’s transfer to finish TPS for these 4 international locations may end in mass deportations and the uprooting of households.
Gibson’s assertion aligns with different elected officers and advocacy teams who’ve condemned the choice and known as for protections to be reinstated by way of congressional motion.
The Bronx, one of the numerous counties within the nation, is house to giant immigrant communities from every of the affected international locations. Many TPS recipients within the borough are small enterprise homeowners and fogeys of U.S.-born youngsters.
