In one of his last acts of defiance against the incoming second Trump Administration, Joe Biden has taken steps to attempt to protect one million illegal aliens from deportation after he leaves office.
As reported by Breitbart, Biden expanded the scope of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to apply to three times as many illegals as before, as revealed by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
TPS was first enacted under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990, and forbids federal immigration officials from deporting illegals who came from a country that has been determined to be suffering from either famine, natural disasters, or war.
When Biden first took power in January of 2021, less than 320,000 illegals were granted TPS in the United States. Now, at the end of his term, 17 different countries have been designated for TPS status: Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Lebanon, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen. This drastic expansion has tripled the number of illegals that can now claim TPS as a sort of pseudo-amnesty, making deportation much harder.
Even then, Democrats in Congress have been begging Biden to expand TPS further to include hundreds of thousands more illegals, with Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto demanding that the administration “come in now to protect some of the immigrant communities: TPS recipients, DACA recipients.”
Due to Biden’s open-border policies and support for mass amnesty, the number of foreign-born illegals in the U.S. has skyrocketed to 52 million, equivalent to 15.5% of the American population. If it were to continue at the same pace, then the number would reach 82 million by the year 2040.
President-elect Donald Trump once again campaigned on a promise to crack down on mass immigration, legal and illegal, including vows to finish building the southern border wall and to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history.
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