John Kelly-Appointed DHS Official Urges: Extend Work Permits for 300,000 Migrants
The federal government should provide extended protective status to 300,000 non-citizens living in the United States, says a top John Kelly-appointee at President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.
The proposed temporary amnesty comes from James (Jim) D. Nealon, the assistant secretary for International Affairs in DHS’s Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, just as top officials debate whether to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for nationals from four Central American countries, many of whom have benefitted from status renewals for close to two decades.
They “work legally in great numbers,” are “liv[ing] the American dream,” and “have many thousands of American citizen children,” “it makes no sense to send [citizens of Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador] back to their country of origin,” Nealon, a former U.S. ambassador to Honduras appointed in 2014 by then-President Barack Obama, argues in an October 31, 2017, memorandum obtained by Breitbart News.
In the memo, Nealon urges acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke to extend these three countries’ TPS designations for 18 months, speaking on behalf of foreigners in an administration that is supposedly aiming to “Buy American, Hire American”.
“While TPS was always meant to be temporary,” Nealon says, these non-citizens “have jobs” in America and “have a very high workforce participation rate, much higher than the national average.”
As of October 2017, 6.5 million Americans are unemployed...................
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