The undersigned 292 civil, human rights, and immigrant rights groups write to express our tremendous alarm and condemnation of your administration’s recent announcement of your plan to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to resurrect Trump-era asylum bans. This announcement marks a full-throated embrace of policies initiated by the prior administration, which by your own description “contravened our values and caused needless human suffering.” We call on you not to break your campaign promise to end restrictions on asylum seekers traveling through other countries.

We, the undersigned organizations serving and advocating for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, write to urge you to implement policies to urgently alleviate the processing backlog for TPS applicants. Any delay in adjudication eats into an already short grant period, leaving applicants at risk of deportation and without permission to work, even while qualifying for those benefits.

We, the undersigned organizations committed to civil rights, immigrant rights, human rights, educational, and grassroots organizations write to urge Secretary Mayorkas to extend and redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia for 18 months. The designation for Somalia expires on March 17, 2023, with a decision date coming up on January 16, 2023. Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis exacerbated by a protracted armed conflict that has lasted over three decades.

We, the undersigned organizations urge an 18-month extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemen. Yemen’s TPS designation is set to expire March 3, 2023, while Yemen continues to experience armed conflict and extraordinary conditions that make safe return to Yemen impossible for Yemenis present in the United States.

Haitian Bridge Alliance and the undersigned 422 immigration, human rights, faith-based, and civil rights
organizations write to request that your Administration extend and redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected
Status (TPS) in light of Haiti's deteriorating security, governance, and humanitarian crises. Recently, sixteen
U.S. senators agreed and released a letter calling for the same.  

We urge you to support the closure of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention sites, prevent the development of new detention sites or expansion of existing ones, and seek reduced funding for immigration detention from Congress. Now is the time for principled leadership following the long-awaited court ruling lifting the Title 42 public health expulsion order. As your administration stands up processing of individuals, we urge you to not fall back on harmful, arbitrary, and unnecessary detention in response to people seeking protection.

An ongoing humanitarian and climate crisis in Pakistan makes the return of its nationals dangerous and inconceivable. Catastrophic flooding has left one-third of Pakistan underwater, and devastated the country’s healthcare, education, and agricultural infrastructure. 1 It has resulted in the displacement of 7.9 million people, impacted more than 33 million people, and caused the death of at least 1600 people and counting.

The undersigned 101 organizations, which include 34 direct service providers along the US- Mexico border, urge Congress to increase Fiscal Year 2023 funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) to $200,000,000 to meet the needs of local communities providing critical services for families and individuals encountered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 

The experience of being detained is incredibly damaging to the mental and physical health of those in ICE detention. Visitation can help ease the adverse effect on detained individuals' mental health and also plays a key role in the monitoring of human rights violations, as many individuals in ICE detention do not feel comfortable disclosing sensitive or confidential information over the phone or through the mail.