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WE ALL HATE MEXICANS. ME TOOOO THYIS IS NOT UNCONSTRUCTIVE OK WE ALL KNOW JUSTIN BEIBER IS CANADIAN WE HAVE TO STOP ALL THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM http://mysearch.avg.com/search?cid={FC7794BF-188D-4614-B93F-EF387375E980}&mid=2b9f994310bf4928926b3e13e503eb08-35731c40484d545b4beddb130dbbedd26f1860cc&lang=en&ds=hk018&pr=sa&d=2013-09-25%2019:28:57&v=15.4.0.5&pid=safeguard&sg=0&sap=dsp&q=Amnesty+Issue+BriefsOverviewIllegal+ImmigrationLegal+ImmigrationNational+SecurityBorder+SecurityLabor+and+EconomicsGuest+WorkersPopulation+and+EnvironmentSocietal+IssuesPublicationsRelated+ResourcesPAGE+TOOLSContact+UsPrint+this+PageShareThisTemporary+Protected+Status+(2013)Temporary+Protected+Status+(2013)As+FAIR+executive+director+Dan+Stein+noted+in+congressional+testimony+on+March+4%2C+1999%2C%22Our+laws+should+not+reward+illegal+immigrants+to+the+United+States+regardless+of+the+political+or+natural+upheavals+in+their+homelands.+Otherwise%2C+experience+shows+that+we+will+encourage+further+illegal+immigration.+By+now%2C+we+should+have+learned+from+experience+that+TPS+is+misnamed+--+what+we+offer+as+%22temporary%22+protection+is+most+often+seen+by+the+aliens+residing+illegally+in+the+United+States+as+a+foot+in+the+door+to+legal+permanent+residence.+They+are+happy+to+accept+our+offer+of+humanitarian+concern%2C+but+they+have+no+intention+of+departing+the+United+States+when+TPS+status+expires.%22Temporary+Protected+Status+(TPS)+was+enacted+in+1990+to+apply+to+non-resident+foreigners+wishing+to+avoid+returning+to+their+homeland+because+of+civil+strife+or+effects+of+a+natural+disaster+of+%22extraordinary+and+temporary+conditions.%22+Those+foreigners+who+were+to+benefit+from+this+Temporary+Protected+Status+(TPS)+were+people+not+seeking+permanent+U.S.+residence%2C+such+as+asylum+applicants.+Students+or+visitors+whose+visas+were+expiring+were+spared+from+seeking+a+visa+extension+by+this+provision.+However%2C+in+practice+the+true+beneficiaries+of+TPS+were+not+temporary+visitors%2C+but+rather+people+who+had+entered+the+United+States+illegally.This+was+clear+from+the+outset%2C+when+Congress%2C+in+adopting+the+measure%2C+specified+that+people+from+El+Salvador+should+be+among+the+first+beneficiaries.+The+Salvadorans%2C+for+the+most+part%2C+had+entered+the+country+illegally.Not+only+did+TPS+spare+illegal+aliens+from+deportation%2C+it+provided+them+a+quasi-legal+status+in+the+country+and+gave+them+work+permits+so+that+they+could+legally+work.This+is+also+what+is+occurring+in+the+2010+declaration+of+TPS+for+Haitians.+Illegal+residents+under+deportation+orders%2C+many+of+them+in+detention%2C+will+be+the+primary+beneficiaries.+The+groups+advocating+for+adoption+of+TPS+for+the+illegal+alien+Haitians+had+been+pressuring+for+a+declaration+of+TPS+long+before+the+devastating+earthquake+of+January%2C+2010.Distortions+in+the+TPS+ProgramClearly+the+test+of+whether+the+TPS+program+would+work+as+intended%2C+i.e.%2C+a+temporary+respite+for+persons+who+fear+returning+home+because+of+temporary+adverse+conditions%2C+is+whether+TPS+status+has+been+allowed+to+lapse+when+homeland+conditions+have+stabilized+and+whether+the+protected+populations+have+then+left+the+United+States+to+return+home.+By+this+standard%2C+TPS+has+been+an+absolute+failure.+Practice+has+shown+a+pattern+of+unjustified+extensions+of+TPS+designations+and+demands+for+amnesty+by+the+protected+aliens+so+that+they+could+stay+permanently+in+the+United+States.An+example+of+this+distortion+of+the+TPS+program+may+be+seen+in+the+continuing+extensions+of+that+status+for+Liberians+since+it+was+first+granted+in+1991+as+a+result+of+civil+war+in+that+country.+In+July+1999%2C+Attorney+General+Janet+Reno+belatedly+found+that+conditions+in+Liberia+no+longer+justified+an+extension+of+TPS.+However%2C+President+Clinton+in+effect+overruled+that+finding+and+again+extended+temporary+protection+for+Liberians.+He+did+not+do+so+on+the+basis+that+the+Liberians+would+face+danger+or+unusual+hardship+if+they+had+to+return+home.+He+justified+his+decision+on+the+basis+that+if+the+United+States+were+to+force+Liberians+to+return+home%2C+other+nations%2C+especially+in+West+Africa%2C+might+adopt+similar+policies+toward+the+Liberian+expatriate+communities+living+in+their+countries.+This%2C+the+Administration+reasoned%2C+might+be+destabilizing+to+the+current+Liberian+government.But%2C+the+intent+of+TPS+was+to+protect+individuals%2C+not+their+governments.+The+Liberian+example+was+not+the+first+of+the+Clinton+Administration+heeding+the+concerns+of+foreign+governments+in+deciding+TPS+designation.+It+had+done+so+earlier+when+Central+American+countries+that+asked+that+the+United+States+not+deport+their+nationals+who+had+benefited+from+TPS%2C+arguing+that+they+did+not+have+jobs+available+for+the+prospective+returnees.+And%2C+the+practice+of+acceding+to+pressure+from+US+%22immigrant+rights%22+groups+and+from+the+Liberian+government+to+continue+temporary+protection+against+deportation+did+not+end+with+the+end+of+the+Clinton+Administration.In+2007%2C+President+Bush+found+that+TPS+for+Liberians+was+no+longer+justified+and+terminated+it.+However%2C+at+the+same+time+he+ordered+that+the+Liberian+beneficiaries+of+the+expiring+TPS+not+be+deported+and+instead+be+granted+Deferred+Enforcement+of+Departure+(DED)%2C+a+status+that+normally+is+extended+only+on+a+case-by-case+basis+based+on+unusual+hardship.+That+DED+designation+was+set+to+finally+to+expire+in+2009.+But+again%2C+before+it+expired%2C+it+was+extended+for+an+additional+year+by+President+Obama.+He+did+so+again+in+March+2010+for+an+additional+18+months+on+the+basis+that+there+are+%22...compelling+foreign+policy+reasons.%22+The+continuing+%22temporary%22+status+of+the+Liberians+has+led+to+efforts+to+adopt+an+amnesty+for+them+to+provide+permanent+legal+residence.+Rep.+Patrick+Kennedy+(D-RI)+has+sponsored+an+amnesty+bill+for+them%2C+arguing+in+1998+that+%22after+seven+years+of+providing+them+this+special+protected+status+we+can't+pull+the+rug+out+from+under+them.%22For+nearly+as+long%2C+TPS+status+for+Central+Americans+from+Nicaragua+and+Honduras+%E2%80%94+again+mostly+illegal+aliens+%E2%80%94+has+been+extended+beyond+any+rational+humanitarian+need.+They+received+that+provisional+status+in+January+1999%2C+and+have+had+the+status+periodically+renewed+despite+the+end+of+emergency+conditions+in+their+homelands.Even+in+instances+where+TPS+has+ended+without+being+converted+to+DED+status+or+an+amnesty%2C+that+has+not+mean+that+the+individuals+who+benefitted+from+that+designation+came+under+any+pressure+to+leave+the+United+States+to+return+to+their+homeland.+There+is+no+evidence+that+the+immigration+authorities+have+ever+used+the+information+provided+by+the+aliens+when+they+registered+for+TPS+to+verify+whether+those+no+longer+legally+in+the+country+have+left+following+the+lapse+of+TPS.+Whether+the+immigration+authorities+have+been+under+instruction+to+ignore+the+illegal+residence+of+former+TPS+beneficiaries+or+have+simply+not+seen+them+as+a+priority%2C+the+results+have+conveyed+the+message+that+there+is+no+hurry+in+departing+%E2%80%94+if+ever.A+meeting+in+2000+between+immigration+authorities+(then+INS)%2C+the+Department+of+State%2C+and+non-governmental+immigration+advocacy+groups+reported+in+the+May+1%2C+2000+publication+Interpreter+Releases%2C+(p.573)+reported+as+follows%3A%22The+INS+stated+that+termination+%5Bof+TPS%5D+does+not+'signify+the+start-up+of+an+enforcement+action%2C'+and+that+individuals+who+fall+out+of+status+upon+a+termination+of+TPS+are+not+singled-out+for+deportation.%22That+statement+to+the+defenders+of+illegal+aliens+conveyed+the+message+as+well+as+a+public+announcement+that+there+was+no+pressure+to+leave+the+country.+It+did+so+without+the+disadvantage+that+a+public+announcement+might+have+had+of+raising+public+concern+with+the+federal+government's+stated+disinterest+in+living+up+to+its+law+enforcement+responsibility.Temporary+Protected+Status+and+AmnestiesThe+interrelationship+between+the+TPS+status+and+amnesty+for+aliens+residing+illegally+in+the+United+States+is+clear.+That+link+was+established+in+the+debate+surrounding+treatment+of+natives+of+El+Salvador+who+were+specifically+designated+for+TPS+status+in+the+1990+Immigration+Act.+These+aliens%2C+who+for+the+most+part+entered+the+country+illegally+in+the+1980s%2C+and+were+granted+temporary+protection+and+work+permits+as+a+result+of+the+TPS+designation%2C+never+went+home+after+political+stability+was+reestablished+in+their+homeland.+The+fact+that+they+had+been+covered+by+TPS+--+and+later+by+Deferred+Enforcement+of+Departure+--+and+during+this+period+had+put+down+roots%2C+had+acquired+U.S.-born+children%2C+had+been+legally+working+and+paying+taxes+was+cited+as+sufficient+reason+that+they+should+be+given+legal+residence+rather+than+forced+to+leave.+These+arguments+led+to+the+adoption+of+an+amnesty+for+these+Central+Americans+as+well+as+some+others.+On+November+19%2C+1997%2C+President+Clinton+signed+into+law+the+Nicaraguan+Adjustment+an0d+Central+American+Relief+Act+(NACARA).+NACARA+provided+permanent+residence+(%22green+cards%22)+to+certain+Nicaraguans%2C+Cubans%2C+Salvadorans%2C+Guatemalans%2C+nationals+of+former+Soviet+bloc+countries+and+their+dependents.+A+similar+amnesty%2C+the+Haitian+Refugee+Immigration+Fairness+Act+(HRIFA)%2C+which+was+enacted+in+December+2000+applied+to+Haitians+who+had+been+the+beneficiaries+of+an+earlier+DED+designation+in+1995.It+should+be+apparent+from+the+disparity+between+the+intent+of+our+policies+and+the+practical+effects%2C+that+this+gap+is+undermining+our+immigration+laws.+Congress+needs+to+correct+the+balance+between+compassionate+policies+and+protecting+the+public+against+uninvited+and+unwanted+illegal+immigrants.+The+American+public+needs+to+be+reassured+that+its+compassion+is+not+being+taken+advantage+of+by+foreigners+seeking+greater+economic+opportunity+through+the+opening+of+our+hearts+to+victims+of+political+or+natural+disasters.TO+END+THIS+CYCLE%3ACongress+needs+to+speak+with+one+voice+on+the+importance+of+ending+mass+illegal+immigration%2C+and+of+the+importance+of+equipping+the+immigration+authorities+(under+professional%2C+committed+leadership)+to+handle+the+large-scale+apprehension+and+deportations+required+to+restore+integrity+to+the+rule+of+law.TPS+is+unnecessary+and+should+be+abolished.+The+law+permits+the+Executive+Branch+the+power+to+temporarily+suspend+deportation+in+emergency+situations.+That+is+all+that+is+necessary+to+cope+with+foreign+humanitarian+crises.Until+TPS+is+removed%2C+it+should+be+limited+only+to+foreigners+who+are+in+the+U.S.+legally%3B+it+should+be+a+program+available+only+to+those+who+are+here+in+the+normal+course+of+affairs+and+may+be+expected+to+return+to+their+homeland+at+the+earliest+opportunity.+That+is+not+the+case+with+illegal+aliens%2C+and+they+should+be+excluded.If+granted%2C+TPS+must+not+be+a+stepping+stone+to+permanent+residence+through+amnesty+provisions.+Those+who+receive+TPS+should+not+be+given+any+further+opportunity+to+file+claims+for+relief+later+under+any+other+provision+of+U.S.+law%2C+other+than+as+a+result+of+a+marriage+to+a+U.S.+Citizen.Below+is+a+chronology+of+the+use+of+TPS+(and+DED)+grants%3A+TPS+DED++AmnestyCountryStartEndStartEnd++China*4%2F901992+++Protection+ActEl+Salvador1%2F916%2F926%2F9212%2F94+ABC+asylumKuwait3%2F913%2F923%2F9212%2F93++Lebanon3%2F914%2F93++++Liberia3%2F913%2F973%2F979%2F14+proposedSomalia9%2F913%2F14++++Bosnia8%2F928%2F00++++Rwanda6%2F946%2F97++++Haiti12%2F956%2F976%2F9712%2F98+HRIFABurundi11%2F975%2F09++++Sierra+Leone11%2F975%2F04++++Sudan11%2F9711%2F14++++South+Sudan**7%2F1111%2F14++++Montserrat8%2F977%2F04++++Kosovo6%2F985%2F00++++Guinea-Bissau3%2F999%2F00++++Honduras12%2F981%2F15++++Nicaragua12%2F981%2F15++++Haiti1%2F101%2F13++++Angola3%2F001%2F03++++El+Salvador3%2F013%2F15++++Syria3%2F123%2F15++++*Executive+Order+12711+in+April+1990+converted+to+amnesty+by+the+Chinese+Student+Protection+Act.**Upon+independence.Dates+in+red+above+represent+current+TPS+declarations.+Updated%3A+July+2013H.R.+1417Email+AddressSubmit+MEDIA+CORNERWho+is+FAIR%3F+Dan+Stein%2C+President+of+FAIR%2C+introduces+the+organization+and+speaks+about+its+goals+and+objectives.+++++++HOMECONTACT+USFAQPRIVACY+POLICYDONATEMY+FAIRSITEMAP