We’re urging President Biden: Work Permits For All!

11 a.m.: Franklin Park, 13th Street NW and I St NW, Washington, DC

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We are asking President Biden to:

• Expand PAROLE for long-term immigrant contributors, including DREAMERs without DACA, spouses of American citizens, and long-term workers.
• Expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED).

WHAT’S HAPPENING:

This September, President Biden granted work permits to half a million Venezuelan immigrants. This was an important first step for our economy and families. Now, hundreds of advocates and organizations and political leaders from both sides of the aisle are calling on the President to take the next step and grant work permits for long-term immigrant workers and mixed-status families who have worked and paid taxes for decades. 

On November 14, we will host thousands at the National Here to Work Day of Action in Washington, D.C. to say: “Work permits for all!”

BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR “HERE TO WORK”

Since February 2023, the Here to Work Coalition has rallied more than 350 businesses, Republican and Democratic governors, and Members of Congress to urge the Biden administration to expand work permits for long-term immigrant contributors already in the United States and new migrants arriving at the border — including through the use of parole under the significant public benefit provisions of current law, humanitarian parole, TPS redesignation, and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED). Taking bold, humane, common-sense action makes sense on its merits, and it is politically popular. As laid out in an upcoming memo by American Families United, immigration voters — U.S. citizen adults living with undocumented immigrants — are a force in swing states. Common-sense, humane action on immigration is their top priority.

LEGAL AND ALLOWABLE UNDER CURRENT LAW. Read our legal memo here.

• The Biden administration has granted a historic number of parole work permits to 567,000 Afghanis, Ukrainians, Venezuelans, and Cubans. 
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) already provides parole for the undocumented husbands, wives, and parents of U.S. military service members. 
• Recently, Biden provided TPS for 470,000 Venezuelans who arrived by July 31, 2023.