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The National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) & Communities for Status and Protection (CUSP) Support Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Lebanese Nationals

The DED will allow eligible Lebanese nationals to legally remain in the Unites States for 18 months  July 26, 2024   Washington, DC — Today, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced a Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for certain Lebanese nationals currently residing in the United States. This decision reflects the ongoing humanitarian crisis in southern Lebanon, where ongoing conflict between […]

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Another Anti-Black Attack on Asylum From the Biden Administration

For Immediate Release  May 16, 2024 Contact: Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe, Danyeli@undocublack.org  UndocuBlack Network (UBN), Communities United for Status and Protection (CUSP), and Afri-Kana Denounces Yet Another Anti-Black Attack on Asylum from the Biden Administration Washington DC– The Department of Homeland Security announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). The proposed rule gives asylum officers

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CUSP Opposes Cruel Immigration Restrictions for Funding of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Ukraine’s war & US military presence in Taiwan, Urges Senators to Vote No!

Communities United for Status & Protection (CUSP) strongly opposes the proposed legislative text for the $118 billion supplemental bill, which gives the Biden-Harris administration unprecedented levels of funding to carry out the United States military interests in exchange for decimating our already flawed immigration system. As a collaborative advocating for African, Asian and Arab/Middle Eastern immigrants,

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CUSP Stands with CASA

Communities United for Status & Protection (CUSP) stands in solidarity with CASA de Maryland and with the thousands of members they serve in the wake of alarming calls to defund the organization. For 35 years, CASA has been a pillar in the community by providing essential direct social services, building power in immigrant communities and

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UBN & CUSP Call on CBC to Demand a Ceasefire in Gaza

October 24, 2023 Honorable Steven Horsford  Chair, Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)406 Cannon HOBWashington, D.C. 20515 Dear Chairman Horsford: As a multigenerational network of currently and formerly undocumented Black immigrants and a collaborative representing Arab, African and Asian immigrant communities in the United States, The UndocuBlack Network and Communities United for Status and Protection urge the 

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DEMOCRATS DO RIGHT BY YOUR BASE

Instead of courageously meeting the growing humanitarian needs of asylum seekers with humane, sustainable proposals at the border, this administration continues to push forward cruel, punitive proposals and succumb to false right-wing narratives around migrants and security at the border. The stark contrast between Biden-Harris’ campaign commitments to immigrants and the reality of the policies they are implementing became crystal clear in the weeks approaching the lifting of Title 42. 

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