Erik Paulsen: “Time is running out. Unless the administration takes action by March 31, members of Minnesota's Liberian community who…”

“Time is running out. Unless the administration takes action by March 31, members of Minnesota's Liberian community who have been here for more than 20 years after fleeing a vicious civil war and making new lives here in the United States could be forced to leave. Minnesota is home to one of the largest Liberian communities in the country. More than 16,000 Liberians, including 4,000 children, have made Minnesota their home, and for decades, they have been productive members of our society and our economy. Since the early 1990s, Presidents of both parties have ensured that they can stay. A bipartisan group of my colleagues and I are asking and joining together to ask the President to act to do the same. I have also coauthored bipartisan legislation to allow these families to stay because, Mr. Speaker, we are asking the President: Don't let this happen. Do the right thing. These families are fundamentally American, and they are a part of the very fabric of what we have in Minnesota as a community. ____________________”