Presidential Memorandum 2021-01770 explained · Presidential Memorandum
Reinstating Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians
Signed: 2021-01-20 Published: 2021-01-25 Federal Register document: 2021-01770
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Presidential Memorandum 2021-01770 says
Federal Register, Volume 86 Issue 14 (Monday, January 25, 2021) [Federal Register Volume 86, Number 14 (Monday, January 25, 2021)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 7055-7057] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2021-01770] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 86 , No. 14 / Monday, January 25, 2021 / Presidential Documents [[Page 7055]] Memorandum of January 20, 2021 Reinstating Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the Secretary of Homeland Security Since 1991, the United States has provided safe haven for Liberians who were forced to flee their country as a result of armed conflict and widespread civil strife, in part through the grant of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The armed conflict ended in 2003, and TPS for affected Liberian nationals ended effective October 1, 2007. President Bush then deferred the enforced departure of those Liberians originally granted TPS. President Obama, in successive memoranda, extended that grant of Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) to March 31, 2018. President Trump then determined that conditions in Liberia did not warrant a further extension of DED, but that the foreign policy interests of the United States warranted affording an orderly transition period for Liberian DED beneficiaries. President Trump later extended that...
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