Xiomara Castro demands in New York to extend the TPS for Honduran immigrants

Honduran representatives who are lobbying in the United States for the expansion of a Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for irregular immigrants from their country went to New York to meet with the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, who has promised to channel the request before the White House.

The Honduran president is in New York as part of her agenda before the United Nations Organization (UN) where she will speak in the middle of the afternoon this Tuesday before the plenary session of nations.

The president’s office said that the president “reiterates her commitment” to take steps with the US government to support her nationals who offer their workforce in the United States.

Mardoel Hernández, a member of the TPS National Alliance and who came from Washington DC to New York as a member of the Honduran diaspora, told the voice of america that the meeting with the president was “cordial” and an approach “and commitments” has been established.

The press secretary of the Honduran presidency published on social networks that Castro de Zelaya, who took office at the end of January of this year, “reiterated his commitment to continue requesting the reappointment of thousands of compatriots who have benefited from the program. ”.

The United States granted Honduras a TPS in 1999 due to the devastating effects left by Hurricane Mitch on immigrants who by then were residing illegally in the United States. Currently about 60,000 Hondurans are still beneficiaries of the program.

This year calls have grown for the US to extend TPS in the face of other more recent natural disasters that have destroyed a good part of the productive infrastructure of the Central American country, such as hurricanes Eta and Iota, plus other tropical storms that have caused serious damage.

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