A Texas congressman is aiming to reform the Temporary Protected Status program for migrants and to end the abuses of the program.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, on Thursday will introduce a bill that, if passed and signed into law, would grant Congress, not the president, authority to designate a foreign country under U.S. Temporary Protected Status.
“Temporary Protect Status has been used and abused for decades by both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations,” Roy told The Daily Signal.
TPS was first enacted in 1990 to protect foreign nationals from danger in their home county, but, as Roy pointed out, the program has long been abused and used as a tool to grant “soft amnesty” to millions of foreigners.
The Department of Homeland Security has the authority to designate nationals from a specific country eligible for TPS due to safety concerns that prevent them from returning to their home country, or other circumstances that prevent a nation from being able to handle the return of its citizens.
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