Tell your Members of Congress to oppose the Trump Administration's termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for Burmese refugees in the US.

On November 24th 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it was terminating the temporary protected status (TPS) of almost 3,000 Burmese refugees in the United States.

In explanation of this policy turnaround, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem made the deeply false, misleading, and misguided statement that: “The situation in Burma has improved enough that it is safe for Burmese citizens to return home, so we are terminating the Temporary Protected Status." Even more disturbingly, Secretary Noem called the junta's upcoming sham elections as "free and fair" and even praised the junta, and its ally China, for their joint pressure on ethnic resistance organizations misleadingly labelling such pressure as creating "successful ceasefire agreements."

Secretary Noem made this statement despite receiving a letter from over 150 organizations documenting how the situation in Burma does not allow those with Temporary Protective Status to return home safely. The statement further made the powerful case that providing temporary protection in the US for Burmese refugees is in alignment with U.S. national security and American values of democracy, human rights, and religious freedom.

The effect of Secretary's Noem's statement is to offer aid and comfort to the Myanmar junta and its ally, China. This policy as stated by DHS would send back to Burma refugees including, but not limited to, Christians facing grave persecution as documented by the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), women raped by Myanmar military forces, democratically-elected Burmese representatives, young non-violent resistance movement advocates, and civil society leaders.

Please send an message directly to your Members of Congress to:

• contact the Administration to state your opposition to the termination of temporary protected speak out publicly against Secretary Noem's false and misleading statements about conditions in Burma;
• introduce new legislation to restore TPS for Burmese refugees in the US.

For More Information:

+150 Organizations Call for 18-Month Extension and Redesignation of Temporary Protected Status for Burma (Myanmar), 20 June 2025

Insight Myanmar: "Coming to America," 3 January 2025