President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expanded and redesignated a temporary amnesty program for more than 300,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States, allowing them to avoid deportation and to take up U.S. jobs.
Last weekend, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced the extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 309,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States who would otherwise be subject to deportation.
The announcement marks another sign that the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security is seeking to significantly expand TPS, a program that has so far only served 165,000 Haitians.
With this extension and redesignation, nearly twice as many Haitian nationals who claim to have been in the U.S. as of June 3, 2024, will be eligible to remain in the U.S. and take U.S. jobs through February 2026.
“We are providing humanitarian assistance to Haitians already in the United States, taking into account the situation in their home country as of June 3, 2024,” Mayorkas said in a statement. “In doing so, we are fulfilling the core objectives of the TPS Act and our obligation to fulfill them.”
TPS was first created under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1990 to prevent federal immigration authorities from deporting people from countries designated as experiencing famine, war, or natural disasters.
Since the Clinton administration, TPS has morphed into a de facto amnesty program as the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and now Biden administrations continually renewed the program for different countries.
Currently, about 900,000 foreign nationals in the U.S. have TPS, avoiding deportation, the majority of whom are from Venezuela, Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras and Ukraine.
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