NORTON. Mr. Speaker, mass deportation of Temporary Protected
Status recipients today would disrupt our country and theirs. More than 32,000 Salvadorans live in the District of Columbia metro
area; and Salvadorans, at 200,000, are the largest group of TPS holders
in the country today. TPS designation requires the Attorney General to find ``extraordinary
and temporary conditions preventing returning to the state in safety.''
The most recent influx of Salvadorans, one-third of them
unaccompanied minors, shows that these conditions have been met for TPS
holders and others. With the breakdown of civil society in Central
America today, forced return of anyone now would be inhumane.
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