Posted on 08/01/2016 9:54:40 AM PDT by amorphous
Homeland Security granted a new temporary amnesty Monday to more than 8,000 Syrians living in the U.S. right now, saying they can remain for up to 18 months longer no matter what their legal status.
Secretary Jeh Johnson issued “temporary protected status” to Syrians, saying that if they are in the U.S. as of Monday and continue to reside here permanently, they can apply for work permits and other documents to remain and live in the U.S. without fear of being ousted.
His order applies to some 5,800 Syrians who were granted status under a 2012 TPS program, and 2,500 new arrivals who don’t have a more permanent status here.
“Syria’s lengthy civil conflict has resulted in high levels of food insecurity, limited access to water and medical care, and massive destruction of Syria’s infrastructure. Attacks against civilians, the use of chemical weapons and irregular warfare tactics, as well as forced conscription and use of child soldiers have intensified the humanitarian crisis,” Mr. Johnson said in announcing the new program.
Those eligible for TPS include any Syrian illegal immigrants who have managed to sneak into or remain in the U.S. beyond their visa expirations over the past four years.
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Hmmmmmm
This is all about tying Trump up in court challenges if he orders them deported.
it should be renamed Homeland Insecurity
“DHS grants Syrians temporary amnesty”
I didn’t know they could do that, I thought that only congress could.
TPS is never revoked, we still have people here from earthquakes in 1985
I’m pretty sure the number of Syrians in this case, is at least 10 times that being reported.
This is the real discrimination.
The rule of law is lost in our Republic.
True. Like that old ‘11 million illegal aliens’ line used for the past 30 years. It’s more like 70 MILLION now.
Must be nice to be an UN-elected person being able to yield such power over us all.
Nobody has a clue what the true numbers are.
What one president can grant, another can undo.
Your thread didn’t show up in my search because you or they changed the title and I only searched the word “granted”
“This is all about tying Trump up in court challenges if he orders them deported.”
I would agree and disagree.
Hopefully, if we retain the house and the senate that will help.
Plus Trump will be appointing the next Secretary of Homeland Security who will work to reverse all the damaging edicts while simultaneously return to enforcing the laws and regulations and taking away funding for sanctuary cities until they become compliant with the law — Appoint one or two (maybe three) conservatives to the supreme court because it will have to be settled by the supreme court (6-3)...It becomes a smaller hill to take IMO.
Trump doesn’t play that game.
Round them up and send them back to a safe zone in Syria via military transport.
The pray is over
Rule by LAWYERS is over.
If Trump can get a SCOTUS majority then perhaps he can deport them after the case has wound it’s way through all of the appeals courts. By then no doubt a large number will have disappeared into the woodwork.
Then the issue will become what to do if Syria won’t take them back. We are signatories to several treaties on stateless persons. We’ve committed not to make people stateless. Several ex-Nazis who had their citizenship revoked nonetheless died in their own beds here because no other country could be found that would take them.
The party is over
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