The Biden Administration, in one of its final moves to promote mass immigration, extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to nearly one million foreign residents from El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela. This program, as its name states, is supposed to provide temporary relief from deportation to people whose home countries suffer natural disaster, war, or “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”
In practice, TPS recipients seldom go home, even after the problems in their countries subside. During his previous administration, President-elect Trump tried to repatriate some of the TPS people who should have returned. The executive branch has this authority as long a it provides a 60-day notice. Nevertheless, court challenges prevented Trump’s plan from moving forward.
The president-elect has indicated that he will try again to trim the program again once he gets into office. This time around he probably will face the same obstacles, and the recently swelled ranks of TPS beneficiaries probably will increase the difficulty.
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