{"id":2621334,"date":"2026-06-30T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tps-has-always-been-a-giant-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:01:06","slug":"tps-has-always-been-a-giant-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tps-has-always-been-a-giant-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"TPS Has Always Been A Giant Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftps-has-always-been-a-giant-scam%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2621334&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians, a move upheld by the Supreme Court. Though, Mullin revealed that many Haitians who obtained TPS-especially after the Biden administration&#8217;s large expansion in June 2024-did so illegally by crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without going through standard immigration procedures. Thes individuals frequently enough had legal status in South American countries before moving to the U.S., where they sought asylum or were paroled in, allowing them to live and work legally despite not following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taxi-driver-found-hanging-in-the-woods-police-put-the-clues-together-and-realize-a-14-year-old-girl-might-be-behind-it\/\" title=\"Teenage girl suspected in taxi driver&#039;s mysterious death in the woods.\">proper legal channels<\/a>. The Biden administration\u2019s broad TPS expansion and lax enforcement have effectively prolonged the program beyond its original intent, turning it into a backdoor route to permanent residency rather than a temporary measure. Historically, TPS was designed for temporary relief during crises, but in practice, it has been exploited to allow foreign nationals to stay indefinitely.The recent court ruling exposes the fraudulent nature of TPS and emphasizes the need for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-tom-cotton-senate-republicans-will-make-any-build-back-better-votes-painful-for-democrats\/\" title=\"Exclusive... Tom Cotton: Senate Republicans Will Make Any \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 Votes Painful for Democrats\">strict immigration enforcement<\/a>,countering liberal claims that every poor country\u2019s nationals have a right to indefinite stay nonetheless of legality.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Over the weekend Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the Trump administration\u2019s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the U.S. \u2014 a decision that was upheld by a Supreme Court decision last week.<\/p>\n<p>But in doing so, Mullin also unwittingly exposed what a massive fraud the TPS program is \u2014 and why many foreign nationals living in the U.S. under TPS protections should be immediately deported.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper, Mullin said that Haitians who have been living in the U.S. for years under TPS (which was first granted in 2010, after a major earthquake in Haiti), could apply for permanent residence or a visa if they want to remain in the U.S. legally. \u201cYou have to go through the regular steps that every other immigrant that wants to come to the country legally has to go through,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>What Mullin left out is that thousands of Haitians were granted TPS status under the Biden administration only <em>after<\/em> they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. The one thing they <em>didn\u2019t<\/em> do, in other words, was go through the regular steps that other immigrants to the U.S. go through. Once their TPS status is revoked, they will simply be illegal immigrants in violation of federal immigration law, and thus subject to immediate removal.<\/p>\n<p>The background here is that in June 2024, after years of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fatal-shootings-in-sweden-remain-at-record-high-levels-in-2021\/\" title=\"Fatal Shootings in Sweden Remain at Record High Levels in 2021\">record high levels<\/a> of illegal immigration, the Biden administration undertook <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/temporary-protected-status-tps-haiti-haitians-biden-e92b8de782d2c1218dd1be1899aa926d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one of the largest ever expansions of TPS<\/a>, making some 300,000 Haitians already living in the U.S. eligible for the program, and extending protections for another 200,000 Haitians who already had it \u2014 confirming once again that there was nothing \u201ctemporary\u201d about TPS. It was simply a bureaucratic ruse to allow foreign nationals to live in the U.S. indefinitely. (The TPS expansion of June 2024 was supposed to expire in February 2026, just as the very first TPS designation for Haiti, enacted by the Obama administration in January 2010, was supposed to expire in July 2011.)<\/p>\n<p>What most <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >corporate news media failed<\/a> to report at the time is that many of the Haitians who became eligible for TPS in 2024 were among the millions of illegal immigrants who crossed over the U.S.-Mexico border after Biden took office in 2021, knowing that they would probably not face deportation as they had during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<p>The Haitians who came across during this period were not, for the most part, fleeing Haiti. Most of them had been living for years in South American countries, where they had legal status, work authorization, ID cards and passports. They had left Haiti years before, either because of disasters like the 2010 earthquake or because of high crime and poor economic conditions. They had settled in stable, safe countries like Chile and Brazil, where they had been employed and even had children, who became citizens of those host countries.<\/p>\n<p>But after Biden won the White House in 2020, many of these Haitians realized they could get into the U.S. and avoid deportation by requesting asylum \u2014 or simply by being paroled out of federal custody, as hundreds of thousands of illegal border-jumpers were under Biden. I personally interviewed dozens of Haitians in Texas during this period who crossed the border illegally, claimed asylum, and were released with court dates two to three years away. In the meantime, they were authorized to live and work, legally, in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Overwhelmingly, their motivation for making the move from South America to the U.S. was economic. Although living in Chile or Brazil was better than living in Haiti, living in the U.S. would be better still. In America, they could earn significantly more than they could in these South American countries.<\/p>\n<p>To claim asylum, they simply discarded their legal documents from the host countries, since the existence of those documents would show that they were not fleeing persecution or famine and therefore not eligible for asylum. At the time, immigration reporters like Todd Bensman, now a senior advisor to Tom Homan at DHS, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/15\/opinion\/bidens-final-border-lie-that-hundreds-of-thousands-of-migrants-cant-be-deported\/\">documented<\/a> this. Bensman recovered hundreds of discarded Chilean and Brazilian ID cards and passports on the banks of the Rio Grande \u2014 documents left by Haitians and Venezuelans who wanted to claim asylum status once inside the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Their plan worked. Once across the border, most of these Haitian nationals were released from federal custody and eventually granted TPS status by Biden. This is the group that Democrats and liberals in the media are now saying should be allowed to stay despite the Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 ruling that Trump can terminate TPS protections for Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>Some, like Jake Tapper, argue that Haiti today is unsafe, and that Trump should extend TPS protections for Haitian nationals, as previous administrations have done. But to argue this is to misunderstand or misrepresent the nature of TPS. The program was created in 1990 in response to the civil war in El Salvador, and the idea was that citizens of designated countries that are unsafe could be protected from deportation and receive work authorization until conditions improve in their country, at which time they would go back.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not how the program has worked out in practice. Haiti and Syria were first added to the TPS list in 2010 and 2011, respectively, after a major earthquake in Haiti and civil war in Syria. There are Haitians living in the U.S. today that came here after that 2010 earthquake. There are likewise Salvadorans who came in the 1990s, during the civil war, still living in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>What the Supreme Court case and the controversy around it has exposed is just how fraudulent the TPS program has always been. It was never temporary, but exploited as a backdoor to permanent residency in the United States for people who would otherwise be deported.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many other scams in Washington, the Trump administration has determined to put an end to this \u2014 despite the insistence from liberal and Democrats that every person from every poor country in the world has a right to sneak into this country illegally and be allowed to stay forever.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&#038;qid=1695306441&#038;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mullin exposes TPS fraud amid Haiti deportation debate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2621335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Haiti.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[36570,81949,6909,9895,49417],"class_list":["post-2621334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-consumer-rights","tag-financial-alert","tag-fraud","tag-scam","tag-tps"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Haiti.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621338,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621334\/revisions\/2621338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2621335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}