Border czar Tom Homan defended the Trump administration’s efforts Tuesday to revoke the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.
Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California halted the revocation of TPS Monday for 350,000 Venezuelans following a lawsuit led by Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James. Homan noted that in nearly 40 years of being involved in immigration enforcement, his experience was that TPS often ended up being permanent.
“It’s another activist judge making a stupid ruling that just doesn’t make sense,” Homan told “Fox and Friends” co-host Lawrence Jones. “You know, I’ve been around since 1984, Lawrence, and TPS, Temporary Protected Status, is never temporary — and President Trump is going to do his job by rule of law. The law says temporary status.”
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“Once the conditions of that country they’re from … change, then people should be removed from the United States,” Homan continued. “It’s only a temporary status. For instance, if there’s a hurricane and it devastates a part of the country, we’ll give them TPS until that country gets back on their feet, but TPS isn’t meant to be decades-long.”
TPS is usually used when conditions in a country, such as a natural disaster or a civil war, preclude the safe return of people illegally in the United States to that country, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website.
“So, President Trump, who’s promised the American people we’re going to enforce the laws enacted by Congress and signed by a president,” Homan said. “We’re going to use the laws of this country to secure the borders and enforce immigration law. It’s exactly what we’re doing.”
“TPS needs to be temporary in nature,” Homan continued. “We need to follow the rule of law and not some advice from an activist judge that makes a foolish ruling not based on the law but based on opinion. If you look at that decision, it’s based on opinion, not the rule of law.”
Upon taking office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and MS-13, an El Salvadoran prison gang, as foreign terrorist organizations.
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