Franken wants deportation reprieve for Liberians in Minn.

KSTP.com ^ | 2/16/10 | Jacob Kittilstad

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Sen. Al Franken and 12 other congressmen signed a letter to the white house Tuesday urging President Obama to extend the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians living legally in the United States.

"For the last twenty years, Minnesota has been home to one of the largest Liberian communities in the country," said Sen. Franken. "Roughly 25,000 Liberians currently call Minnesota their home and over 1,000 of them would face deportation if we allow these protections to expire."

Since 1991, Liberians who were forced from their homes because of civil war and sought refuge in the United States have been granted either Temporary Protected Status or approved DED. This protection is currently set to expire March 31, 2010.

"It's wonderful to see Liberia making progress in rebuilding their country, but the situation there continues to be fragile," said Sen. Franken. "Liberians who have lived in Minnesota for almost two decades should not be forced to return to a country which is still in the process of becoming stable."

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Hey, 1,000 votes is 1,000 votes...eh, Al??

[highlander_UW]

Who wants to deport librarians....oh....never-mind.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Sending them back would help stabilize Liberia more.

[musicman]

"Hey, 1,000 votes is 1,000 votes...eh, Al??"

[domenad]

Deport them? Who’s going to organize all the books and fix the card catalogs?

[FromLori]

You can’t seem to get rid of any of the illegal aliens all the somali’s in Minnesota many of them here illegally like the so called leader omar jamal they say we can’t kick them out either no functioning govt. crap.

[Diogenesis]

[Da Coyote]

Howz about a compromise?

Keep the Liberians, export Franken.

IQ of the state goes up.

Smell goes down.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Franken want’s to deport all Librarians?

[Vigilanteman]

Great compromise! Also, you could keep the Liberians and deport the Somalis.

[NeoCaveman]

Franken want’s to deport all Librarians?

Not Librarians, Libertarians.

[CrazyIvan]

Franken want’s to deport all Librarians?

It accomplishes the same thing as book burning without
the environmental impact.

[DoughtyOne]

There’s 25,000 of them. Didn’t you mean 100,000 votes is 100,000 votes? ;-)

[DoughtyOne]

I get your 1000 votes figure now. I had failed to make the connection before. Still, didn’t you mean 4,000 votes = 4,000 votes? LOL

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[TChris]

Somebody needs to commission a large billboard for Minneapolis, methinks.

[WOBBLY BOB]

"For the last twenty years, Minnesota has been home to one of the largest _______communities in the country," ...

fill in the blank with whatever you like and you'll probably be correct.

[traderrob6]

Gotta read the headlines more carefully, thought it was Libertarians.