Posted on 02/23/2025 10:33:32 AM PST by Twotone
“Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) is a legal fig leaf invented by Congress in 1990 that allows the secretary of Homeland Security to exempt nationals of a designated country under certain conditions from having to go back there. It hit the headlines because DHS secretary Kristi Noem on February 20 rescinded the Biden administration’s latest extension of TPS for Haitians. In 2024, Alejandro Mayorkas authorized nationals of that country to stay in the United States a further 18 months, until February 2026. Earlier in February, Noem canceled TPS for Venezuelans.
Haitians have enjoyed Temporary Protected Status in the United States for almost 14 years. They’re not the record-holders. Somalis are, having had TPS since 1991. Being president is a more temporary status than being a Somali TPS holder: six presidents have come and gone since Somalis were first given permission to remain “temporarily” in the United States.
TPS is authorized when the situation in a person’s country of origin is so unstable as to endanger people going back there. Legal criteria of dangerous instability can include armed conflict (e.g., a coup where military rule is ongoing or a civil war has broken out), environmental disaster (e.g., an earthquake), an epidemic, or “other extraordinary and temporary conditions.” TPS holders receive permission to work in the United States. They can also travel abroad and come back to America. Under immigration law, people who have a temporary status to remain in the United States usually cannot leave without losing that status. TPS holders can also be granted permission to visit third countries (just not their own) without forfeiting the ability to re-enter the United States and resume TPS protection.
The National Immigration Forum claimed that there were over 863,000 TPS holders in the United States as of early 2024.
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Same applies to TEMPORARY Restraining Orders by low-level federal court justices only hearing cases in their area.
These should NEVER apply to the whole country.
Let’s not make it temporary, just eliminate it, most people coming here under this “temporary “ program are just trying to get in the country.
Time end this BS. These hand picked whack a mole judges sending out nation wide rulings need to be stopped now. That little scumbag in Maryland who used the 1st Amendment to cancel Trump’s DIE EO was the las straw. The little prick has been a Fed Judge less than a year and had the nerve to dictate to the President. NO.
Many invaders are either given TPS or can ask to be considered refugees entitled by the Refugee Convention to become citizens.
Trump needs to denounce (officially exit) the Refugee Convention, which he can do unilaterally by given written notice addressed to the Secretary General of the UN.
Do they have to file a TPS Report?
Republicans in Congress need to rescind that law, period.
Let’s end refugee resettlement by any form of entitlement.
Persons wanting to come to the United States should be able to come only by approved application alone.
Foreigners should be deportable at the will of the President and all his designated persons - no appeal - just a seat towards home and a farewell.
Send them all back.
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