First on FOX: The number of migrants protected from deportation by the controversial Clinton-era immigration program has almost quadrupled under the Biden administration, according to a new House report obtained by Fox News Digital.
The House Judiciary Committee report considers the use of temporary protected status under the previous administration. The program was implemented in the 1990s and grants protection from deportation and allows work permits for citizens living in the United States from countries where they are deemed not returned due to armed conflict or natural disasters.
The first Trump administration moved to limit the number of immigrants protected by the program, but later expanded on a massive scale under the Biden administration, with more than 14 million foreigners from 16 countries granting TPS as of January.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will speak on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 during a briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
The report found that the Biden Harris administration added 1 million aliens in four years and benefited just 410,000 people from TPS at the end of the first Trump administration.
“What Congress intended to be a temporary position has become permanently and automatically updated designations over time, and some countries have been designated as TPS for decades despite changes in the state of the country,” the report states. “The Biden Harris administration has significantly expanded this de facto pardon to hundreds of thousands of new aliens, many of whom are illegally in the country.”
The report found that around 725,000 people with TPS were the first to break in during the Biden administration, with the majority of Haiti and Venezuela being announced.
Due to the designations being made in 2021 and 2023, no Venezuela TPS beneficiaries were designated during the Biden administration. As of January 2025, there were 614,044 TPS beneficiaries in Venezuela. The report also found that 95% of protected Venezuelans have been admitted to a visa and have been entered through illegal or humanitarian parole.
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Meanwhile, in Haiti, TPS beneficiaries jumped from 55,000 in January 2021 to 342,260 in January 2025, with 91% admitting without a visa.
The report not only criticizes the Biden administration, but also says that the previous administration is “abused.” [TPS] For decades. ”
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has shut down the use of TPS for hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries. ((Photo: Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)|(Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)|(Fox News Digital)))
However, it says that with the expansion of TPS, many potential scams have come [the Biden administration’s] Hurry to prevent the Trump administration from becoming unable to remove the vast strip of illegal aliens.
Since the Trump administration took office, TPS policies have already undergone dramatic changes. The administration vacated the Biden administration's decision to extend the TPS for Haitians last month.
“President Trump and I are restoring TPS to their original status: temporary.”
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The move comes after an earlier move that revoked TPS status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans. However, the Judiciary Committee report states that more needs to be done in what is called a “critical first step” in restoring program integrity.
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“However, it takes much more work to eradicate fraud and end the designation of TPS that is not in the interest of the American people because it is violating the law, and to enact appropriate reforms to ensure that such abuse is never given to the country again by a future open boundary administration,” Congress says there is a “crucial role” to play in such reforms.
