Washington, United States.
Groups of Hondurans embarked on a journey from various parts of the United States this Sunday to start next Tuesday for the White House, dwhere they will meet hundreds of fellow countrymen to askl President Joe Biden a new Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for your country.
The Honduran immigrants They left in private cars from cities like Houston, Texas) the Sacramento (California), explained this Sunday to Efe Juan Flores, president of the Establishment September 15.
Others start their journey on Mondays and Tuesdays Hondurans desde “almost all states “dthe country to ask Biden give a immigration status lsimilar to those who are close by a million from undocumented immigrants of that Central American country that, he calculated, lives in the US.
According to data from the Pew Center, some 79,000 Hondurans currently fall under the “old” TPS, founded in 1998 and extended until 4 October next in solving one legal dispute on the cancellation of the program decided by the former president Donald Trump.
The government of United States dindicates the countries where natural disasters or violence justifies the protection given to those escaping from those nations and protects against expulsion and them grants work permits.
For Flores and the hundreds of Hondurans whowho are expected to travel to the American capital, a new one TPS for your country, which currently “offers no conditions” for they can return.
“Behind the hurricane Iota (which hit the country in 2020) there is no hope left, ”he said.
Therefore, and in an act of it “patriotism”, decided to meet on Tuesday in front of the monument of Abraham Lincoln and from there march to the White House, true “humble” they will ask Biden that the dice new TPS.
The president of your country, Juan Orlando Hernandez, Last December he traveled to Washington, where he asked for an extension of the current TPS, which protects only a few 44,000 Hondurans.
But Flores believes the US has not approved this new program because of the “separation of friendship” between Washington and Tegucigalpa because of the corruption that exists in his country, and that makes him more and more common “isolated” on the international stage and then it’s their turn “to wear” to them “irresponsibility” of their leaders.
The president of the September 15 Foundation said that became apparent after recently the Biden’s government approved it TPS for Venezuela and Burma and not for Honduras.
“We totally are abandoned by politicians of our country and so we have a painful obligation to go Washington”, He said.
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This initiative will also serve to create a “SOS for Honduras”, who in his opinion is entangled in “dmercy and misery “ because of its leaders.
For this reason, the Hondurans who immigrated to the United States endorse the government’s decision that not one dollar of the 4 billion than Biden wants to deliver in the next four years Central America ends up in their hands presidentsrather it is transferred to NGOs, international organizations and religious institutions working on the ground.
Washington’s announcement coincides with drug trafficking allegations against the Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, qthat have come to light for one pilot in New York against an assumption drug dealer cwith whom prosecutors say the Honduran president has worked for years. EFE