Snapshot · The Ben Shapiro Show
The Temporary Protected Status program was created by the Immigration Act of 1990, making it over three decades old and far outlasting its intended temporary scope.
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Created in the Immigration Act of 1990 to give temporary refuge to people already in the US when their home country became catastrophically dangerous, TPS started with one designated country: El Salvador. Over 36 years, the list grew to 17 countries, and the average TPS holder has now been in the US for two decades. Shapiro argues that this wasn't accident but strategy: the Obama and Biden administrations opened the borders, allowed mass illegal entry, then labeled the migrants' home countries 'too dangerous' under TPS, effectively converting illegal immigrants into people who couldn't legally be deported. The Trump administration's response is to declare those countries no longer dangerous for deportation purposes — using the same broad executive discretion the law grants. Republicans focus on 'temporary'; Democrats focus on 'protected.'
Temporary Protected Status was created in 1990 for one country, El Salvador. Through deliberate open-border policies under Obama and Biden, it became a backdoor amnesty mechanism covering 17 countries and hundreds of thousands of migrants who've been in the US for an average of 20 years. The word 'temporary' was stripped of all meaning.
Despite being called 'temporary,' the average Temporary Protected Status holder in the United States has been in the country for 20 years.
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