Nigeria is experiencing ongoing armed conflict and other extraordinary and temporary conditions that make the safe return of Nigerians from the United States impossible. The undersigned 128 civil rights, immigrant rights, human rights, educational, and grassroots organizations write to urge Secretary Mayorkas to review country conditions and designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), and Special Student Relief (SSR) for Nigeria.

Under the leadership of Congolese community leaders, the undersigned 115 civil rights, immigrant rights, human rights, faith, educational and grassroots organizations write to urge Secretary Mayorkas to review country conditions and designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Special Student Relief (SSR) for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ongoing armed conflict and an escalating humanitarian crisis have garnered the world’s attention as reports of brutal violence grow each day.

Immigrants' rights, civil rights and civil liberties, and community-based organizations are committed to protecting the rights of all people, including Muslim, African, Arab, Iranian, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities. We urge President Biden to provide relief to all who have been impacted by Trump's Muslim and African Bans which were rescinded on January 20, 2021. Following the United States District Court, Northern District of California, Aug. 1, 2022 order in the Pars Equality Center et al. v.

Observed by over a billion people around the world including many from our Asian American and Asian diaspora community —

Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese Americans — Lunar New Year is a time for reunions with families and loved ones to celebrate new beginnings. 

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.