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Welcome to another @culturestrike editorial cartoon.

Last week, the Trump administration made the move to dismantle Temporary Protected Status (TPS), leaving nearly 300,000 people vulnerable to deportation.

TPS is a program that grants a temporary visa to refugees that allow them to live and work in the U.S. while also giving them some protection from being made to return to their home countries. The U.S. has granted TPS to refugees from 10 countries, all which have been devastated by natural disasters or wars: El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

It’s difficult to look at the termination of this program and not wonder what will become of this nations, especially since many of them have experienced U.S. interference in some way, whether military or bureaucratic. So how can we end the program and begin sending people back to countries where there is still an immense amount of disparity and violence? How do we reconcile this move with the sins of American presence and intervention in these various nations?

The U.S. should not remove the program and destabilize the lives of 300k refugees once more. Doing so just adds more unnecessary trauma and anxiety to the lives and complexities of the refugees who have built here. Putting an additional 300k people in the crosshairs of DHS’ detention and deportation machinery is as cowardly as it gets.

Artwork by @juliosalgado83. Blurb written by @eslvis.

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE, featuring the amazing and talented San Jose undocuqueer poet/artists, Yosimar Reyes.

Link: bit.ly/cspodcast7, (or click on link in our bio section).

In this 7th installment, @yosirey, @eslvis, and @thechoselyfe discuss: the end of DACA, and climate change as it relates to the undocumented experience in the United States.

Please take a listen, and if you like what you hear, give it a like and a share to help spread the word! #culturestrike #defenddaca #daca #immigrantart #immigration #podcast #migrantpower #not1more