TPS DESIGNATION DISCRIMINATION

The designation for Temporary Protected status is supposed to be for nationals from a country suffering political or humanitarian or natural disaster crisis. Immigrants rights groups have ongoing campaigns for Mauritania and Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the State Department, the DRC is suffering a humanitarian crisis marked by civil conflicts that have spanned more than two decades. Black Mauritanian leaders and others have also urged the administration to designate Mauritania under TPS status. Meanwhile, countries like Ukraine, received TPS designation within a week of the conflict started. There is a call for Biden administration were to redesignate TPS, it would change the cut-off date of when people had to have entered the U.S. in order to qualify for the program, and those who entered within the last 20 years would be eligible.