In Case You Missed It, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is leading efforts urging President Joe Biden to complete important work to protect long-term immigrant communities before the end of his term. Specifically, she is calling on the Biden-Harris administration to designate, redesignate, and extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Ecuador, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, as well as make it faster for DACA recipients to renew their status.
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CNN Dana Bash (Broadcast)
Cortez Masto: “I’ve been reaching out to the current administration within the months that they have left to ask them to really take action. They legally can take action to extend TPS status to so many who are already…here, working, contributing to our economy, and they legally qualify to have their TPS status extended because the countries they come from are still in horrific conditions.
The other thing that you talked about are for our dreamers, my ask of the administration is also we need to quickly process these DACA applications, Dreamers who come to this country.
This is the only country they know. They came as young children. They want to be a part of the community and the country that they grew up in. They were on the front lines of the pandemic for us. […]
The administration has the legal authority to do that, and I’m just asking them to utilize their authority.”
MSNBC Morning Joe (Broadcast)
Cortez Masto: “Right now, the President has the legal ability to do this. These countries that you talked about already, really there are horrific conditions. They satisfy what we have passed in Congress, the laws, to allow the president to take action to provide TPS status. […]
We need to make sure our DREAMers also have the ability to stay here, continue to be a part of the country that they grew up in because unfortunately, as you have identified, the next administration is going to come in and there’s going to be chaos around immigration and mass deportation. We’ve already seen it.”
When President Trump was in office the first time, I can tell you the calls to my office and the chaos that he created around immigration and separating families. […]
That’s why I’m asking the Administration to come in and take the action that they can now to protect some of the immigrant community, TPS recipients, DACA recipients, and make sure that at least we’re bringing certainty to them and keeping their families together.”
The Hill: Hispanic senators press Biden to protect immigrants before leaving White House
By Rafael Bernal
Key Points:
- The Senate’s three current Hispanic Democrats are calling on President Biden to extend and strengthen humanitarian protections for certain groups of immigrants whose legal status could be stripped by the incoming Trump administration.
- In a letter on Wednesday, Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Alex Padilla (Calif.) and Ben Ray Luján (N.M.) called on Biden to strengthen the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program and to quickly process renewal applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
- The three lawmakers used Ecuador, Nicaragua and El Salvador as examples of nations with large populations in the United States that could benefit from TPS extensions or designations.
Las Vegas Sun, Nevada Sen. Cortez Masto to Biden: Take action now to protect immigrants
By Haajrah Gilani
Key Points:
- Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is calling on President Joe Biden to protect immigrants in his final days in office ahead of President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House and attempting to carry out his large-scale deportation plans.
- “We write today to urge you to act decisively during the remainder of your term of office to complete important work that will protect long-term immigrant communities,” wrote Cortez Masto, Sen. Alex Padilla D-Calif., and Sen. Ben Ray Luján D-N.M., in a letter released Wednesday.
- “He doesn’t have any solutions […],” Cortez Masto told the Sun in October about Trump.
By Rachael Bade And Eugene Daniels
Key Points:
- Three prominent Hispanic Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to protect immigrants as part of his final “Trump-proofing” efforts.
- Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Ben Ray Lujan (N.M.) And Alex Padilla (Calif.) want Biden to “act decisively” by expanding and extending Temporary Protected Status for migrants from Ecuador, Nicaragua and El Salvador while also speeding up processing of DACA renewals and other applications for legal pathways.
- Those moves, they write, would “protect long-term immigrant communities and ensure that families are not returned to countries where they would face immense danger.”
La Opinión: Senadores hispanos urgen a Biden proteger a inmigrantes antes de dejar la Casa Blanca (Hispanic Senators urge Biden to protect immigrants before he leaves the White House)
By Armando Hernández
Key Points:
- El senador Alex Padilla la presidenta del Subcomité Judicial del Senado sobre Inmigración, Ciudadanía y Seguridad Fronteriza, Catherine Cortez Masto y Ben Ray Luján pidieron al presidente Joe Biden que tome medidas urgentes para proteger a las comunidades inmigrantes de largo plazo antes de que finalice su mandato.
- Los tres demócratas hispanos del Senado insistieron al mandatario en crear protecciones de los beneficios migratorios, como el TPS y el DACA, que se encuentran en peligro ante el regreso de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca.
KSNV, Nevada senator urges Biden administration to protect DACA and TPS recipients
By News 3 Staff
Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is taking a stand against President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportation plan by urging the Biden administration to protect individuals under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and those with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). […]
“The current administration can legally extend temporary protected statuses, as well as process DACA applications quicker,” Cortez Masto said. “They legally can take action to extend TPS status to so many who are already, as you said, here working, part of contributing to our economy, and they qualify, legally qualify, to have their TPS status extended because the countries they come from are still in horrific conditions.”
Telemundo Las Vegas (Broadcast)
Reporter: “La senadora Catherine Cortez Masto insta a la administración Biden a actuar ahora para proteger a las comunidades inmigrantes. Le pide al presidente que proteja a los beneficiarios de DACA y TPS antes de que finalice su mandato. Pide extender el TPS para Ecuador, Nicaragua y El Salvador, así como acelerar el proceso de renovación del DACA para los DREAMers para evitar una deportación. Actualmente hay unos 6,300 beneficiarios de TPS y otros 12,000 beneficiarios de DACA en el Estado de Plata.”
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