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Brooklyn Park / Brooklyn Center
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Rep. Dean Phillips, facing away from the camera, hugs Imam Mohammed Dukuly, who is a boardmember with the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota.
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the largest population of
Liberians in the United
States, with a signifi cant
portion of those residents
having settled in Brooklyn
Park and Brooklyn Center.
That could all change
March 31, when, barring
an act of Congress or a
presidential
extension,
DED will expire.
DED, which is afforded
at presidential discretion,
was extended by President
Donald Trump for one
year in March 2017. He
called for a “wind-down”
period for the status before
it terminates. Upon termi-
nation, residents here with
DED status will no longer
be legally protected or doc-
umented.
Across the board, speak-
ers at the rally were unifi ed
in calls for either an exten-
sion for DED status or
for congress to approve a
path to citizenship for Li-
berians.
“Liberians are law abid-
ing and work very hard.
They pay their taxes,” said
Abraham Bah, chair of the
Organization of Liberians
in Minnesota.
“We pray that our gov-
ernment will do the right
and the moral thing,” said
Arthur Bia, co-chair of the
Organization of Liberians
in Minnesota.
To this point, Sens. Tina
Smith and Amy Klobu-
char, along with Reps.
Angie Craig, Dean Phil-
lips, Betty McCollum and
Ilhan Omar, have signed
onto a letter asking Trump
to extend DED protection
before it expires.
‘No one person is going
to solve this problem,” said
Minnesota Attorney Gen-
eral Keith Ellison during
the rally, which was hosted
in the Capitol’s rotunda.
“This problem is solved by
all of us … this is a very se-
rious thing when the Unit-
ed States president says
our brothers and sisters
have to leave the home-
land. This is not right. It’s
immoral, it’s improper, it’s
unjust, and we should not
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(SUN POST STAFF PHOTOS BY KEVIN MILLER)
LEFT: Rep. Dean Phillips tells the crowd that a path to citizenship or an extension of DED status for
Liberians is the most important issue he will deal with in the coming weeks and months.
RIGHT: Erasmus T. Williams emceed the rally, introducing guests before they spoke.