Ben Shapiro

There's a coup, terrorists take over.

Well, you could be given temporary protected status by the executive branch.

At the time, Congress designated one country and one country only, El Salvador, as a country where things were so dangerous that you didn't have to be deported back to your home country, even if you were, for example, overstaying your visa.

TPS can only be granted for people in the country.

Now, it doesn't matter if you came legally or illegally.

If you're in the country, TPS can be granted to you if the executive branch deems that your home country is wildly dangerous.

So what happened?

Well, over the course of decades, the list of countries that became dangerous expanded and the borders opened.

So the Obama and Biden administrations in particular took advantage of TPS and

in order to radically change immigration law.

They would open the borders, bring in a bunch of people from crappy countries, label all those home countries dangerous, and now people can stay for literally ever.

The average temporary protected status holder in the United States has been here for 20 years.

So the Trump administration is like, hey, it's supposed to be temporary.

It's in the word temporary.

Democrats are saying, no, no, no, it's protected, right?

The focus should be on protected.

Republicans are saying that the focus should be on temporary.

Now, originally, only one country was labeled by Congress too dangerous for people to go home.

That was El Salvador.

That was back in 1990, which again is, again, my math, 36 years ago.