Temporary Protected Status Has Always Been A Giant Scam

Over the weekend Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the U.S. — a decision that was upheld by a Supreme Court decision last week.

But in doing so, Mullin also unwittingly exposed what a massive fraud the TPS program is — and why many foreign nationals living in the U.S. under TPS protections should be immediately deported.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Mullin said that Haitians who have been living in the U.S. for years under TPS (which was first granted in 2010, after a major earthquake in Haiti), could apply for permanent residence or a visa if they want to remain in the U.S. legally. “You have to go through the regular steps that every other immigrant that wants to come to the country legally has to go through,” he said.

What Mullin left out is that thousands of Haitians were granted TPS status under the Biden administration only after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. The one thing they didn’t do, in other words, was go through the regular steps that other immigrants to the U.S. go through. Once their TPS status is revoked, they will simply be illegal immigrants in violation of federal immigration law, and thus subject to immediate removal.