Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) at a Meetig on Maine Vet Homelessness at Hanaford Hall, USM, Portland Earlier This Year.

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is praising the Biden Administration for extending and redesignating South Sudan for Temporary Protections Status (TPS) through  May 3, 2025 safeguarding the lives of both current TPS holders and South Sudanese who have arrived in the United States since the last redesignation in 2022.

The news comes just days after Pingree led a group of 19 members of Congress in urging President Joe Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alexandro Mayorkas to act ahead of South Sudan’s TPS expiration on November 3, 2023.

South Sudan is currently experiencing intensifying violent conflict, food scarcity and instability further exacerbated by the recent war in Sudan, all of which qualify South Sudan for an extension and redesignation of TPS.

“The US has a duty to continue offering a safe haven for those who have been displaced and endangered amid the continued and intensified violence and political unrest in South Sudan,” said Pingree.  “Allowing those in danger to seek refuge in our country demonstrates the US commitment to human rights and I commend President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas for taking the necesary action to extend these protections for the South Sudanese ahead of the looming November 3rd expiration.”