Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin is under fire for his comments regarding Haitian and Syrian migrants who can “try to apply” for permanent residency, asylum, or a U.S. visa after their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) expires to avoid deportation.
Eligibility for those statuses is contingent upon specific requirements. TPS itself is provisional and does not provide a direct pathway to permanent residency or citizenship.
The Supreme Court just ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that the Executive Branch has the authority to end TPS for Haitian and Syrian nationals. The decision overturned lower court injunctions that previously blocked the termination of these designations.
Congress enacted the Temporary Protected Status program in 1990. It gives DHS the power to designate a country’s citizens as eligible to remain and work in the U.S. if they cannot return safely to their own country because of a natural disaster, armed conflict, or other “extraordinary and temporary” conditions there.
During the Biden years, Border Hawk reporters encountered Haitians in the border town of Acuña, Mexico, who were not fleeing their home country but were instead coming from countries in South America where they had been living.
Many discarded their identification before crossing the border.
“In all likelihood, almost none of the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who entered the United States under Biden had lived in their homeland in many years. Chile and Brazil took in hundreds of thousands of Haitians over the decade preceding Biden. The many hundreds of Haitians whom I interviewed on the migrant trails said they only left Chile and Brazil upon seeing Biden open the Southern border,” senior DHS adviser Todd Bensman wrote in 2024.
Brazil took in “as many as 237,000 Haitians over the years before Biden granted asylum, residency cards, and work permits to any who asked. Many more than that probably lived there unregistered, but tolerated.”
Anyone entering the U.S. who has asylum in another country is disqualified from TPS in the U.S.
“On Oct. 20, for the first time in 35 years, immigration officers could begin their day knowing no alien they encounter has TPS — and Congress, finally, would have the freedom to decide whether the show will resume, for whom, and under what circumstances,” federal employee Hart Celler wrote last year ahead of a raft of TPS expirations.
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Why moderating my comments? I thought this was a free speech venue and usually I try to stay balanced and maybe a little sarcastic. I guess next info warriors will be required to wear masks and take the jab.
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