CEUS ramps up campaign to support TPS recipients

Centro Comunitario CEUS will hold a solidarity walk and press conference on Nov. 9 to welcome to New Jersey the Road to Justice caravan that is crossing the nation to highlight the plight of immigrants in the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.

CEUS members will accompany the busload of immigrants down Bergenline Avenue in West New York, and meet with area legislators to demand US Congress enact legislation to protect TPS beneficiaries from deportation and grant them a path to residency.

Thousands of New Jersey immigrants, including 300 CEUS clients, face legal limbo after January when TPS work permits issued expire in January due to the Trump Administration’s 2017 decision to dismantle the program. Many TPS beneficiaries have lived and worked in the US for nearly two decades, building their lives here, paying taxes and raising US-born children.

“TPS families will be ripped apart if nothing is done,” said Beatriz Rodriguez, a TPS beneficiary who coordinates the TPS campaign for CEUS. “We demand a solution to keep those families together.”