Vera De Souza insists sheâs been a good tenant.
Sheâs lived in Design Place for the past eight years, and for most of that time has never missed a rent payment. That is, until COVID-19 came along and she lost her job as a restaurant worker. De Souzaâs rental assistance is still being processed, but in the meantime her income is limited to weekly $275 unemployment checks and whatever money she can earn selling homemade masks. On top of that she is helping her daughter-in-law, who also lives in the complex, recover from a difficult birth.
De Souza said the propertyâs management told her theyâd work with her, just as they had months ago when she first fell behind on her rent. But just 10 days before Christmas, she was served with an eviction notice.
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Florida Immigration Group Pushes for Further TPS Protections
The Family Action Network Movement, a Haitian immigration advocacy group in Miami, believes TPS recipients need permanent protection.
The Department of Homeland Security announced last week that it would extend Temporary Protected Status until Oct. 4, 2021 for beneficiaries from El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan. Although the Family Action Network Movement, a Haitian immigration advocacy group in Miami, celebrated this announcement, Marleine Bastien, Executive Director of FANM, believes that TPS recipients need permanent protection. “FANM will continue to organize our members and fight for those in the Senate to pass The Dream and Promise Act,” she said. DHS said it was extending TPS “to ensure its continued compliance” with several U.S. district court orders. Caribbean National Weekly Network
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remains intact despite President Trump s call for it to end.
Trump entered office in January 2017 criticizing his predecessors for renewing national memberships every 18 months in the Department of Homeland Security s Temporary Protected Status program, which allows illegal immigrants from specific countries to remain in the country and work because the home country is unstable as a result of political or environmental problems. Trump said crises in those countries that began 20 and 30 years ago could not still affect the ability to repatriate its citizens.
However, a
Washington Examiner analysis of the status of the 10 countries that were enrolled in the program four years ago shows that they remain in the program. Although the administration tried to rescind some, it was blocked in court from doing so. In other cases, it continued the years-old programs because conditions in those countries had not dramatically improved.
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