Please email President Obama to extend Liberian Refugees Deferred Enforced Departure date

[earthboundmisfit]

From my friend HH's Museum of the Bourgeois blog today. I hadn't heard much about this at all till today:

"...More than 200,000 people were slaughtered in the civil wars of 1989 to 2003. The nation’s physical infrastructure is still largely shattered. Diseases caused by poor sanitation are rampant. Unemployment among those not engaged in subsistence agriculture is 85%. The economy is heavily dependent on remittances from Liberians living abroad. Current life expectancy at birth is 41 years.

During the 1990s, some 14,000 Liberians were given “Temporary Protected Status” in the USA/USE. They’ve had children, built careers and businesses, and contributed to the welfare of this country. Unless Obama acts to continue their Deferred Enforced Departure status by 31 March, they will be forcibly deported to lives of squalor in a Liberia which can’t offer a humane life even to its current population.

I feel a particular burden in this situation, having known a few of the 1,000 Liberian refugees who lived in my neighborhood when I lived on Staten Island.

I beg you to join me in writing Obama to extend the Deferred Enforced Departure date, and to ask others to write also. The address is: [e-mail]

Thank you."

More at link, including his sample letter: http://museumofthebourgeois.blogspot.com

[Ghost in the Machine]

1. "Liberian refugees?? What happened to their liberries??

My wife, Laura, she was a liberian for a while. I don't like books much myself though. We need to build some more liberries so these liberians don't have to be shipped off somewhere else. Now watch this drive... smirk, smirk..." George DUHbya Bush


:evilgrin:

[earthboundmisfit]

2. :)

The thought of Shrub saying something like that hit me as well!

[earthboundmisfit]

3. A Thursday kick not for me but because these people need help :)

Please email our President so they will not have to return to what is currently a hellhole.