There are reports that...As of August 2017, nearly two-thirds of Honduran TPS holders had been in the United States for at years, and they had about 53,000 children who were born in the United States.
But lets recall that in November, chief of staff John Kelly pressured Elaine Duke, who was then the acting DHS secretary, to end TPS for Honduras. ....’Instead’, she declined to make a decision, ‘triggering an automatic six-month’ extension.
What’s stunning is these Hondurans and others have had ‘years’ to change their ‘temporary’ status, apply otherwise and have not done so. Rather one President after another has simply ‘extended’ their protective status year after year...
So here again they’re being given time to get their things together to go home and they are saying ‘we won’t leave’...
I can see them in the streets already!
No, they didn't. There was never any way to adjust the immigration status for TPS. From day one, temporary has always meant temporary.
It is unfortunate that these people were led to believe by the leaders of both parties that they could remain here without question, build lives and families, and the day of recking would never arrive. Fortunately, they can serve as a lesson to other TPS residents that temporary indeed means temporary and now is a good time to make the necessary plans to return home.