LIRS Commends Biden Administration for its Extension and Re-Designation of Yemen for Temporary Protected Status

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 6, 2021

Contact: Kimberly Uslin | kuslin@lirs.org | 717-479-2932

Washington D.C. –  Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service commends Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas for his announcement of an 18-month extension and re-designation of Short-term Protected Standing (TPS) for Yemen. The choice impacts roughly 1,700 present Yemeni TPS holders and can permit for practically 500 further Yemen nationals to use for protected standing.

Mayorkas’ determination to increase and re-designate Yemen for TPS acknowledges the perilous situations that make it unimaginable for Yemeni nationals to soundly return to their residence nation, together with ongoing armed battle, “lack of entry to meals, water, and healthcare; large-scale destruction of Yemen’s infrastructure; vital inhabitants displacement; an ongoing cholera outbreak since 2016; and the COVID-19 pandemic’s worsening of a dire financial and humanitarian state of affairs.”

Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, supplied the next assertion on the announcement: 

“Secretary Mayorkas’ extension and re-designation of Yemen for Short-term Protected Standing is a literal lifeline for Yemeni nationals residing in the US. America couldn’t, in good conscience, drive the Yemeni individuals to return to a rustic experiencing what the United Nations has referred to as ‘the most important humanitarian disaster on the earth.’ Escalating violence, warring factions, deteriorating infrastructure, and widespread inside displacement worsen countrywide excessive poverty, useful resource shortage, lack of entry to healthcare, creating situations which might be by all accounts unlivable. The extension and re-designation is greater than a bureaucratic coverage change; it’s a probability at survival for the greater than 2,000 Yemeni nationals dwelling in the US.

We proceed to induce Secretary Mayorkas and the administration to promptly publish and implement TPS selections and to make the most of its TPS authority to supply safety for 1000’s of individuals in determined want, together with these from Somalia, Mauritania, and Cameroon.”

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Based in 1939, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) is without doubt one of the largest immigration and refugee resettlement businesses in the US. LIRS is nationally acknowledged for its management working with and advocating for refugees, asylum seekers, unaccompanied youngsters, immigrants in detention, households fractured by migration and different susceptible populations. By 80 years of service and advocacy, LIRS has helped over 500,000 migrants and refugees rebuild their lives in America.