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Object Lesson: "Temporary"
Amnesty Never Dies
By
Michelle Malkin
Apr
12, 2013
Does
America lack "compassion" and "humanity"
for uninvited foreigners? Quite the contrary. While open-borders
activists rail
against "injustice" and demand new "pathways to
citizenship," official U.S. policy rewards countless line-jumpers with
permanent residency and taxpayer-subsidized benefits.
Case
in point: the massive "Temporary Protected Status"
(TPS) program run by the Department of Homeland Security.
In
theory, as the DHS website describes it, the Secretary of
Homeland Security "may designate a foreign country for TPS due to
conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country's
nationals from
returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is
unable to
handle the return of its nationals adequately." Those conditions
include
hurricanes, environmental catastrophes, civil war, epidemics and other
"extraordinary and temporary conditions."
The
U.S. allows illegal aliens from TPS-designated countries to
live here, work here, be protected from detention or deportation, and
travel
freely. It's essentially a bad-weather pass into the U.S. Whenever a
natural
disaster strikes, we allow legions of foreigners who entered illegally
--
mostly from Latin America -- to stay here while their homelands recover.
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