There are over 435,000 people living in the United States on Temporary Protected Status (TPS). They were granted this status because they come from countries affected by violence or disasters, and it can be renewed for as long as it is unsafe to return.
Yes, temporary may be in the title, but “temporary” should be controlled by whether or not the conditions that had many of these people flee death come to an end. The time should only run out when the life threatening conditions end. After major natural disasters like hurricanes, you know the emergency housing is temporary, but you don’t send the people home while the flood waters are still high. You wait until the water goes down and it’s safe for people to go home.
If there is no extension, these people lose work permits and can face deportation which could leave them with the choice of splitting up their families, as some have had children while here, or bringing their children, who know only this country, back to where they will face danger.
I live in Massachusetts were there are over 12,000 people with TPS status. The entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation supports extending TPS, as does Governor Charlie Baker who is a Republican, so the concern is not a political party thing.
It is a people thing.
With Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke announcing her decision on TPS extensions, 5,000 Nicaraguans and 86,000 Hondurans face being sent back to countries where anyone who reads a newspaper or gets news on the internet knows are not safe places, and what they had fled is still going on.
In 1998 when Hurricane Mitch wrecked much of Central America, TPS was extended to immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua who had entered the country illegally, and was renewed by administrations of both parties since.
Now, they have until 2019, a deadline I am sure those who are making those countries unsafe will take notice of and stop what they are doing because drug cartels are gentlemanly that way.
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For those from Sudan it all ends in November 2018.
When Haiti was hit by an earthquake in 2010, people from that island were granted temporary protected status which will end on July 22, 2019, because as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke determined, the conditions caused by the earthquake “no longer exist”.
TPS beneficiaries have lived in the U.S. for years and worked here. They have contributed to the state and national economies.
By contrast, when the Capelinhos volcano on the Island of Faial in the Azores erupted on September 27, 1957, congress passed the Azorean Refugee Act which authorized the emigration of 1,500 people, and this did not apply just to those affected by the volcano, but also allowed other citizens of the Azores to benefit from these temporary measures. Although the effects of that eruption were temporary, the people who fled and their descendant have remained and weren’t sent back, and they have contributed to the places in which they settled.
Their presence here was not only not detrimental, but like those under TPS, their presence was beneficial to the national and state economies.
Instead of being sent away, those under TPS should have the opportunity to become legal residents some day. They have already proven themselves.
There was, apparently, a time when the United States had a heart.
Perhaps resuscitating that heart would be what makes America great again.