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    December 4, 2024

    Hon. Joseph R. Biden


    President of the United States
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave N.W.
    Washington, D.C. 20006

    Dear President Biden,

    Thank you for your leadership and service to this nation over the past four years. 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 and ensure that families are not
    returned to countries where they would face immense danger. In addition to supporting strong
    border security, we are eager to ensure that DACA recipients, TPS holders, and other immigrants
    who are critical members of our communities and economies are not forgotten during this busy
    time.

    With this in mind, we respectfully urge you to prioritize the following actions:

    Designate, Redesignate, and Extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Eligible
    Countries. Worsening crises in countries around the world, including in Ecuador, Nicaragua,
    and El Salvador, continue to endanger hundreds of thousands of people. Nationals from these
    three countries cannot return home due to severe circumstances on the ground. Ecuadorians
    currently face horrific levels of violence that has only surged in recent years.1 Nicaragua remains
    under the oppressive rule of President Daniel Ortega's authoritarian regime, where widespread
    human rights violations by the government pose severe risks of state-sponsored violence and
    persecution to its citizens.2 And both political and environmental conditions in El Salvador
    continue to justify TPS, with over 180,000 Salvadoran nationals having lived in the U.S. for
    more than 23 years.3 We urge the administration to ensure that those from countries with
    meritorious cases are granted TPS, allowing these individuals to continue building their lives
    here and contributing to our country.

    Protect Deferred Action Recipients via Expedited Processing and Expansion of Legal
    Pathways. With the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the future of DACA and others with
    deferred action, we urge USCIS to process all deferred action renewals and Advance Parole
    requests as expeditiously as possible. USCIS should also allow all DACA recipients’ status to
    extend for the maximum time possible. We also urge you to finalize the proposed regulation

    1
    https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/01/10/how-ecuador-became-latin-americas-deadliest-country
    2
    https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1153891 and https://www.axios.com/2024/11/21/nicaragua-daniel-ortega-
    constitution and https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/11/22/press-release-notice-to-
    the-speaker-of-the-house-and-president-of-the-senate-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-
    to-the-situation-in-nicaragua/
    3
    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/06/21/2023-13018/reconsideration-and-rescission-of-termination-
    of-the-designation-of-el-salvador-for-temporary
    clarifying the rules around cap-exempt status under the H-1B program.4 Clearer cap exemption
    rules may encourage more employers to petition for H-1B visas on behalf of DACA holders,
    which will ensure qualified DACA recipients have opportunities to gain legal status through their
    employers.

    We appreciate your prompt consideration of these crucial actions. Thank you for your continued
    service and partnership as we work together to better the lives of all Americans.

    Sincerely,

    Catherine Cortez Masto Alex Padilla


    United States Senator United States Senator

    Ben Ray Luján


    United States Senator

    4
    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/23/2023-23381/modernizing-h-1b-requirements-providing-
    flexibility-in-the-f-1-program-and-program-improvements

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