320,000-Plus Venezuelans Receive Amnesty Lite
Biden further weaponizes Temporary Protected Status
By Robert Law on March 10, 2021
In the 1972 Summer Olympics, American swimmer Mark Spitz captured an astounding seven gold medals. A feat that seemed unbeatable until countryman Michael Phelps in 2008 bested that performance with eight gold medals. Whether or not he is the originator of this phrase is unclear, but when asked for his reaction to Phelps's triumph Spitz said, "Records are meant to be broken."
This observation also applies to bad records, as witnessed by Monday's announcement that President Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to all Venezuelans in the country as of March 8, 2021, regardless of their current legal status. According to DHS, at least 320,000 Venezuelans, most of whom are illegal aliens, can now receive TPS, obliterating the previous high of 262,500 Salvadoran illegal aliens who benefited from the George W. Bush administration's 2001 TPS designation based on an earthquake in El Salvador.
On its face, TPS is a temporary form of relief that generally allows certain aliens to remain in the United States for a period of time if the DHS secretary determines that conditions in the home country temporarily prevent the country's nationals from returning safely. Once the DHS secretary has designated a country for TPS, beneficiaries are not removable, are permitted to work in the United States, and may receive permission to travel abroad. In practice, as Mark Krikorian has often noted, there is nothing temporary about TPS. This abuse of TPS by multiple administrations has transformed a temporary benefit into amnesty lite — permission to stay in the United States and work. What more could illegal aliens ask for? All thanks to something happening in the home country they never intended to willingly return to.
https://cis.org/Law/320000Plus-Venezuelans-Receive-Amnesty-Lite
