‘Deferred Enforced Departure’ for Liberians Continues Without Justification
By Elizabeth Jacobs on September 6, 2022
Earlier this summer, President Biden issued a memorandum that extended and expanded Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians until June 30, 2024. The president provided just cursory justification for continuing to exempt most Liberians from immigration enforcement.
(This is in the news again because USCIS today published a Federal Register notice about work and travel authorization for Liberians with DED.)
According to USCIS, DED defers “the removal of any Liberian national, or individual without nationality who last habitually resided in Liberia, who is present in the United States and who was covered under DED as of June 30, 2022.” It also defers the removal of “any Liberian national, or individual without nationality who last habitually resided in Liberia, who has been continuously physically present in the United States since May 20, 2017.” DED extends the ability to stay and work to illegal aliens and to people with noinimmigrant (temporary) visas.
https://cis.org/Jacobs/Deferred-Enforced-Departure-Liberians-Continues-Without-Justification
