Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
As a tremendous support full of hope, Lisandro Rosales, Secretary of State of Honduras, has cataloged United States President-elect Joe Biden’s consideration of a plan to protect more than a million Hondurans with the implementation of a new Personal Protection Status (TPS).
International media reported an investigation by Biden’s team to protect the citizens of Honduras and Guatemala from deportation after the countries were hit by the Hurricanes Eta and Iota.
Rosales explained that “the support of a supportive country like the United States and its new administration gives us hope. We, together with the country’s productive forces, are doing our utmost; But the tragedy is huge, we were already concerned with the impact of the covid on our health as well economy, Eta and Iota raised it and it is clear that we will not be able to do it alone and that protection will be given to more than a million of our brothers in that friendly land so that they can work, it will be a tremendous support ”.
President Biden’s transition team is considering the possibility of assigning TPS to the catrachos.
Initiative
According to international media, the initiative would consist in allowing Hondurans already in the United States at the time of the designation of a new TPS to remain legal and work as disaster benefits caused by the Hurricanes Eta and Iota. It has been learned that everything is provisionally part of a study conducted by the transition team into migration issues.
Tom Jawetz, vice president for immigration policy and co-author of the report, said in a statement that “given the pivotal role President-elect Biden played in the administration Obama he is well positioned to understand the devastating impact of these two unprecedented hurricanes on the region. “
If it were to become reality, it would indicate TPS largest in the history of the program. Currently, 44,500 Hondurans have been registered with TPS since 1998 in the United States.