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Voces For ChangeMore than 2 million immigrants risk deportation next year. Meet Yanira Arias, an activist trying to stop that.In this episode, Salvadoran TPS holder, Yanira Arias, an activist with Chicago-based Alianza Américas, discusses the risks of deportation roughly 2.2 million immigrants face next year, including herself, if the next president does not offer them "deferred enforced departure", a temporary legal remedy while Congress works on a long term solution. Her group joined more than 200 other like-minded organizations last Friday in sending letters to President, Donald Trump, and Democratic presidential hopeful, Joe Biden, urging either one to help these vulnerable immigrants. Arias, who was granted TPS some 21 years ago, says El Salvador is still a...2020-10-1900 min