Dan Cadman at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) says the House-passed legislation to provide Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to residents of Hong Kong is a bad idea. One reason is that it would enable the Chinese government to send it agents among the people allowed to reside in the U.S. Thus it would constitute a security threat.
Another problem is that the TPS provision is flawed, and that it is anything but temporary. Cadman notes that “[A]dvocates for this bill will insist that it doesn’t authorize permanent immigration, but ‘only’ TPS. That, of course, is a canard. The whole history of how TPS has been administered shows us that . . . there’s nothing so permanent as temporary status. Hundreds of thousands of alien recipients of TPS from various countries have now been here for decades, and mounted innumerable legal battles to be allowed to remain in perpetuity and granted amnesty.”
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