In just 40 days, President Joe Biden will hand the Oval Office to President-Elect Donald Trump. But before that transition happens, U.S. senators across the country are asking Biden to do one last thing.”President Biden, you have an opportunity to take the steps necessary to designate and redesignate and extend Temporary Protected Status for Ecuador, Nicaragua and Salvador, as well as expedite the process for DACA recipients to renew their status,” U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, a Democrat from New Mexico, said.On Wednesday, Lujan, along with a handful of other U.S. senators, held a press conference to urge the Biden administration to act now to protect immigrant communities, including making it faster for DACA recipients to renew their status. This comes following a letter sent to the president.DACA is a policy that allows hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the United States as children to live and …
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