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Rally to Save Temporary Protected Status!
September 6, 2018 @ 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Rally at 1:15pm, Thursday, September 6, at Federal Plaza, Dearborn & Jackson, with beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and their supporters to save Temporary Protected Status in the face of the Trump Administration’s decision to terminate the program for hundreds of thousands of people.
Speakers will include Leslie Combs, District Director for Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a representative from the office of Senator Dick Durbin and TPS Journey for Justice participants, with benediction by Rev. Walter Baires of Ascencion Lutheran Church in Milwaukee.
A group of Temporary Protected Status holders launched a 12-week “Journey for Justice, starting in Los Angeles, in an effort to defend the program.
The caravan of TPS holders plan to travel to 50 cities to participate events, rallies, roundtable discussions and other activities while advocating for the TPS program and a pathway to permanent residency for its participants. They will be in Chicago September 6-7.
The TPS program offers a provisional reprieve from deportation to citizens of some countries, but the Trump administration has terminated legal protection for nearly half a million immigrants who were in the program, including people from El Salvador and Honduras.