WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)-a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC)- led a bipartisan group of 30 Senate colleagues in calling on the Trump Administration to issue an 18-month extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Ukrainians living in the United States as Vladimir Putin continues his unjustified war of aggression against their homeland. In their letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Senators underscored how a failure to extend TPS ahead of its expiration next month would send thousands of Ukrainians back into a war zone ...