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Title: Marco Rubio calls for temporary protected status for Venezuelans
Source:
McClatchy
URL Source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/pol ... vernment/article170093312.html
Published: Aug 30, 2017
Author: Alex Daugherty
Post Date: 2017-08-30 09:26:56 by IbJensen
Keywords: None
Views: 579
Comments: 4
Marco Rubio has spent months pushing the White House to expand a temporary program that would allow Venezuelans who have fled Nicolás Maduro’s regime to stay in the United States, according to a previously unpublished letter from Rubio to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. The letter, dated March 20, asks Tillerson and Kelly to “review the existing conditions in Venezuela and consider granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to eligible Venezuelan nationals residing in the United States.” “In light of the ongoing political, economic, social and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, it is not in the best interests of the United States to deport non-violent Venezuelan nationals back to the country at this time,” the letter reads. President Donald Trump, who continues to talk tough on immigration, hasn’t indicated that he is open to extending the program to another country. Rubio’s position puts him in line with an increasing number of Venezuelan activists and Florida politicians from both parties who want to expand the temporary program, which currently applies to foreign nationals from 10 countries already in the United States. Last week, Democrats Bill Nelson and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, along with Republicans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Carlos Curbelo, voiced their support for the program, which would not be a permanent solution for Venezuelans seeking to stay in the United States. In recent days, José Javier Rodríguez, a Democratic state senator and congressional candidate, along with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham, have also called for expanding the TPS program. “Temporary Protected Status will allow Venzeuelans fleeing violence to live and work here legally and contribute to our state’s diverse communities until it is safe for them to return home,” Graham said in a statement. Rubio has positioned himself as an important voice on Venezuela under Trump as the State Department deals with a downsized staff. He set up a meeting between Trump and Lilian Tintori, a human-rights activist married to jailed Venezuelan dissident Leopoldo Lopez, and Rubio’s vocal criticism of Maduro and his associates led to the Florida senator getting protection from a security detail. Rubio and Nelson hinted as far back as 2014 that they would consider the possibility of TPS for Venezuelans, but the issue has drawn increased attention after Maduro held a constituent assembly vote with the power to redraw the nation’s constitution. “A few years ago we talked briefly and I worked with others to try and bring attention to the TPS issue,” said Miami-Dade County Commissioner José “Pepe” Diaz, who represents Doral, the area with the highest concentration of Venezuelans in the United States. Diaz said last week he was talking with Rubio, when Vice President Mike Pence came to Doral to speak on the situation in Venezuela, about a letter from the Miami-Dade Commission to the White House expressing support for TPS. Poster Comment: The Venezuelans have made a communist shit hole out of their country. Let's reward them by allowing them to move in with us and finish making a shit hole out of this pitiful nation! Rubio needs to be primaried! His ACU voting record is atrocious. What nation will take us in when all our unwashed, uneducated, spanish speaking immigrunts help with the communization of this nation? With meth, legalized marijuana, heroin and cocaine it would appear that Marco would lard up this country with new customers for the drugs! More welfare, more watering down of a poor education system. The stupid voters of Venezuela have elected another Communist as their president. Let them continue living in the pigsty they've created and keep them the hell out of the USA! Take charge, President Trump and put the lid on this jar of hornets.
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#2. To: IbJensen (#0)
Temporary my ass. We granted TPS to Haitians back in 2010. They're still here, and we keep giving them extensions because no politician has the guts to send them back. But Venezuelans would be different?
#3. To: misterwhite (#2)
Haitians are about as ignorant a race of negroes there are! They're all over the USA along with the Somalian pirate thugs. And, they're most all on welfare. Time to either clean up this nation and shove all these immigrunts back from whence they came.
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