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[quote=Anonymous]How is it that there can be a 4 page thread on immigration and no one mentions temporary protective status (TPS)?  It’s not an intelligent discussion on the problems of immigration without that.

TPS was started by Bush and expanded by every President since as a way of avoiding reform.   It allows people from certain countries undergoing hardship (wars, famines, natural disasters and I think they also added economic disasters recently) LEGAL entry to the US without an assured pathway to citizenship.   That legal entry has an expiry date where their continued presence becomes illegal.   But there was no tracking or enforcement so people commonly overstayed. There 1.3million here that currently hold TPS and I’m not sure of the numbers of those who overstayed.

To me this problem has many obvious built in problems and should be absolished immediately.   We should determine how many legal immigrants we need (and yes, we do need them, they are younger and pay into social security and Medicare) and be country agnostic, first come first serve until that annual quota is reached. [/quote]

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