From Immigration To Gerrymandering, Democrats Keep Using The Word ‘Temporary’ To Mean ‘Forever’ |
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From Immigration To Gerrymandering, Democrats Keep Using The Word ‘Temporary’ To Mean ‘Forever’
Democrats label policies or programs ‘temporary,’ knowing full well once they’re in place they’re almost impossible to undo.
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Congress proved once again on Thursday that the word “temporary” rarely means what it says when several Republicans joined Democrats to extend the longstanding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians by another three years.
As Theo Wold, former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, pointed out on X, “Somalians first received TPS in 1991. Haitians first received TPS in 2010. Both were supposed to last 18 months but continue until this day. Mass migration didn’t take over America over night. It happened through years of ‘temporary’ exceptions.”
His post came just hours after 10 so-called Republicans voted alongside Democrats to extend “Temporary Protected Status” to Haitians. Notably, designations for TPS are supposed to last between 6 and 18 months, as pointed out in these pages by Hart Celler. But “law is silent on how long a designation should last once conditions improve — a silence that has allowed TPS to become a revolving door of indefinite extensions for some …”
In other words, “temporary” doesn’t mean what it is supposed to.
Haitians were first granted TPS in 2010 following an earthquake.........