Ben Shapiro

There are now 17 countries from which people are protected from going home.

The Trump administration came in and they declared that a bunch of these countries are no longer dangerous for purposes of deporting people.

And those countries include places like Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, Yemen, South Sudan, Haiti, Syria, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Now, let's be real about this.

Again, I want to be clear about what's factual and what's not factual.

Many of these countries are wildly dangerous.

Haiti is a wildly dangerous country.

It is the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere by a long shot.

5,500 people were murdered in Haiti last year alone.

Sex trafficking is rampant.

Gangs basically run the place.

It is an anarchic hellhole.

Trump himself called it a bleephole country.

There's a reason for that because it is.

It's a terrible, terrible place.

But here's what happened.

Democrats are claiming that basically temporary protected status is a one-way ratchet.

A president can legalize vast swaths of illegal immigration by labeling a country dangerous, but then a subsequent president cannot unlabel that country unless there's a showing that the country is actually not dangerous.

So current policy is a series of sins.

The extension of TPS policy from 1990 on to apply to a wide variety of countries.