Larry O’Connor penned an opinion piece at The Washington Times. An excerpt of his latest article, Hey Salvadoran refugees, what part of ‘temporary’ do you not understand?, is below:
The Trump Administration’s decision to follow the law and bring to an end the seventeen year gift of legal status to hundreds of thousands of Salvadoran citizens who claimed to be refugees has been met with the typical hand-wringing and lamentations.
The revocation of Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for Salvadorans affected by an earthquake in 2001 was announced Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.
In most cases the TPS (again, the “T” stands for temporary) applied to aliens who were in this country illegally at the time of the earthquake. They were “living in the shadows” and subject to deportation if the federal government had any interest in enforcing our laws at that time. They just happened to win the “earthquake lottery.” The prize? protection from deportation and a work permit on a temporary basis.
Temporary, in this case, meant 18 months back in the innocent days of 2001. Every time that 18 month status was about to expire, President Bush and Obama after him extended the status. Now, 17 years later, the Salvadorans and the American Left have interpreted temporary to mean “permanent” and the protections these people enjoyed are no longer the generous gift it was meant to be, it is now an entitlement that dare not be revoked.
But it isn’t. [Read More]
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