An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Protect Afghan Allies! Renew TPS and Enduring Welcome. The USA made Promises

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Protect Afghan Allies- Operation Enduring Welcome must continue and TPS for Afghan must be restored. In December 2023, Congress passed the CARE Act—with bipartisan support—as part of the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act, authorizing Enduring Welcome through December 31, 2027. But on January 20, 2025, President Trump signed executive orders that caused Enduring Welcome to halt. At the time, I believed this was an unintended consequence of broader immigration changes. Now, I’m deeply concerned that this was part of a broader strategy to shut the program down entirely. I understand that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has asked the State Department to use the remaining funds to permanently wind down Enduring Welcome by the end of FY2025. That would leave tens of thousands of allies behind and abandon the infrastructure built to protect them. We owe so much to these brave families- and abandoning them to the Taliban is unthinkable! The family I sponsor has little girls, who would be denied an education and risk everything if sent home. Please help! And terminating TPS for those here amounts to a death sentence, or for the girls, like the 10 year old I’m mentoring in WA state, a fare worse than death!

▶ Created on April 18 by Katherine

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