Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi Statement on DHS Halting Deportation of Guan Heng, Who Documented CCP Abuses Against Uyghurs

WASHINGTON— Following his December 13 letter urging the Department of Homeland Security to release and grant asylum to Guan Heng, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement after reports that DHS has paused its effort to deport Mr. Guan. Mr. Guan is a Chinese human rights whistleblower who documented the Chinese Communist Party’s mass detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang:

“It is a scandal that ICE was seeking to deport Mr. Guan, and this news is a commonsense first step. As I wrote to the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States has a moral responsibility to defend human rights and to stand with those who risk their freedom to expose atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist Party against Uyghurs in Xinjiang—abuses our government has formally recognized as genocide. Deporting Mr. Guan despite the grave danger he faced would betray America’s longstanding promise as a refuge for the persecuted and for those brave enough to speak out on their behalf. I will continue pressing DHS to grant the full protection his courage merits, including asylum.”