TPS extension for Yemeni Nationals: Good but not enough:
The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) welcomes the Biden Administration’s extending the Temporary Protective Status (TPS) designation for Yemeni nationals residing in the United States. However, we believe Yemen is owed more than the band aid provided to a very small number of Yemenis.
Yemen have been torn by war for too many years. This nasty, brutish and long war destroyed the country’s infrastructure making the humanitarian crisis in Yemen one of the most serious facing the world today.
Granting TPS and its extension to Yemeni nationals residing in the US is a welcome step.
However, millions of Yemenis are suffering from the ongoing war. Those displaced pit of country were not granted the refugee status and designation equal to other victims of war such as the Syrians, the Iraqis and others.
AHRC calls on the Biden Administration to reassess the impact of this ongoing humanitarian crises on Yemenis. Time is due for the US to help end the war in Yemen, lift the siege and help advance the dialogue among all Yemeni parties.
Just like with many ongoing conflicts around the world, it is the innocent civilians who have been the price of war. AHRC calls on the Biden Administration to expedite the processing pf the asylum applications filed by Yemenis and help the thousands of families to reunite. Yemeni Americans continue to suffer excessive delays in adjusting their immigration petitions.
AHRC calls on the members of Congress in Michigan to lead the effort to help provide all the needed help to the Yemeni people.
“The Yemeni crisis and its high toll on civilians demand the attention of all officials in positions to provide any form of relief to the innocent victims,” said Imad Hamad, AHRC Executive Director. “TPS and its renewal constitute one of many steps that can be taken to help the victimized Yemeni people,” concluded Hamad.
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
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