FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rhenie Dalger Phone: 786-280-9062 Email: rdalger@fanm.org FANM’s Statement on DED Extension The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it will extend temporary legal protections for Liberian immigrants for another calendar year. Liberian immigrants on the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) program have lived and worked legally in the United States for decades and they were just three days away from becoming eligible for deportation. They

Link: https://twitter.com/UNITEDWEDREAM/status/1080869610440851456 Washington, DC – Earlier today, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients walked the halls of Congress to lobby members to create a clean, permanent legislative stand alone solution that would protect them from deportation. In light of Trump’s government shutdown, the group also reminded members of Congress what’s at stake if Trump gets billions for h

***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Monday, January 7, 2019, 9:00 am ET Contact: Carolina González cagonzalez@seiu32bj.org (929) 287-4263 Contact: Paromita Shah paromita@nipnlg.org (202) 271-2286 Contact: Beatrice Lindstrom beatrice@ijdh.org (404) 217-1302 Haitian Immigrants and Allies Decry Trump Termination of TPS at Opening of Federal Trial to Halt Possible Deportations Federal trial begins Monday to protect more than 50,000 immigrants and their families from being forcibly separated by

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Congressman Eliot Engel (NY-16) led a bipartisan group of 110 members of Congress in calling on the Trump Administration to reinstate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of immigrants legally living in the United States. The letter comes after the State Department released a series of internal documents showing the Trump Administration’s overtly political decisions to terminate TPS for El Salvador, Honduras and Hai

July 22, 2018-July 22, 2018- One year countdown to the mass deportation of 58,000 Haitian TPS recipients and 27,000 U.S. born children! Press Conference will be streamed via Facebook Live WHAT: TPS Recipients, Faith and Community Leaders Urge President Trump to find a permanent solution for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) WHEN: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. WHO: TPS families, elected, religious, community leaders! WHERE: Family Action Network Movement (FANM) office, 1

Friday, June 22, 2018, Family Action Network Movement (FANM) organized a TPS Summit discussing the impact of the Trump administration rescinding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti and El Salvador and how Congress must step in to find a permanent solution for these families. Marleine Bastien, Executive Director of FANM, along with Archbishop Tomas Wenski, Archdiocese of Miami, Florida, Randy McGrorty, Executive Director, Catholic Legal Services, S

Family Action Network Movement (FANM) congratulates its Executive Director Marleine Bastien on being named as one of the influencers in the Miami Herald's Florida Influencer Series. “I’m so humble by Miami Herald's decision to include me in this esteemed group of community leaders/ stakeholders. I’m looking forward to collaborating and amplifying the voices of Florida residents on climate change, affordable housing, pay equity, gender equity and comprehensive immigration refo

The Trump administration ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 300,000 immigrants despite warnings from experts contained in U.S. embassy cables according to Washington Post’s Nick Miroff, Seung Min Kim and Joshua Partlow. Marleine Bastien, Executive Director of FANM issued the following response to the story: This article proves that the Trump Administration is pushing its agenda to drive immigrants out of the country. The Washington Post story shows that senior officia