Fact Checking: Temporary Protected Status
By Jack Martin February 15, 2019 4 Comments
On February 12, The Washington Post reported on a rally in the nation’s capital in support of amnesty for recipients of TPS – a status that gives permission to stay temporarily to aliens from countries that have been disrupted by natural disaster or civil unrest. The Post’s story was not apparently run past its fact checker.
The story referred to the TPS beneficiaries as “immigrants,†which they are not.
The fact is: Immigrants are foreigners who have come on an immigrant visa or have been given permanent residence while already in the country. Other foreigners are either nonimmigrants – if they are here legally on a temporary visa – or illegal aliens – if they entered illegally or stayed when they no longer had permission to be here.
https://immigrationreform.com/2019/02/15/fact-checking-temporary-protected-status-immigrationreform-com/
