Washington, United States.
More than a hundred Democratic lawmakers this Monday supported an initiative by the Hispanic Caucus of Congress to introduce into the program softens the impact from COVID-19 way for it essential employees and the DACA and TPS receivers can the US Citizenship.
In a letter to the chairman of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, the legislators request that this process be opened “since the immigrants What are they essential employees were and will be the key to health and safety de all Americans. “
The letter noted that there were five million undocumented immigrants in U.Sincluding 202,500 beneficiaries of the Deferred Actions Program for the Arrival of Children (ALS) and 131,300 for temporary protected status (TPS) which serve our country every day as essential employees.
The program ALS established in 2012 by decree the president Barack Obama and has it deportationn of more than 700,000 immigrants who were illegally brought into the country when they were minors. In 2018 was the then president Donald Trump it has decreed the cancellation of the program and legal demands have brought its continuity to the Supreme Court.
The program TPS covers some 400,000 people, from a dozen countries that have escaped natural disasters The violent conflict. The designation of these countries is temporary and in many cases expires in December.
These immigrants, according to the letter from the Hispanic Caucus, ” healthcare as doctors, nurses, provide sicks in their homes, and they maintain health services as guards, cooks and administrative staff. “EFE