An Obama-appointed judge has ruled that President Donald Trump can't revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Syrian nationals currently inside the United States.
United States District Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled in favor of seven Syrian nationals that sued to prevent the end of TPS that was set for Friday, even though they and the other 6,000 who are here have no status at all in the country.
The decision to end TPS for Syrians came from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in September.
“This is what restoring sanity to America’s immigration system looks like,” DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement at the time.
"Conditions in Syria no longer prevent their nationals from returning home," she added. "Syria has been a hotbed of terrorism and extremism for nearly two decades, and it is contrary to our national interest to allow Syrians to remain in our country. TPS is meant to be temporary."
For Democrats, TPS has turned into de facto amnesty without any end in sight, and Trump wants to reverse this trend, and he will surely appeal this decision up to the Supreme Court if he has to.
Syria is not the first country to have TPS ended for its citizens. Since Trump took office, he has ended TPS for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
He has been challenged on the ending of TPS for Haitian nationals as well as those from Cameroon, with Burma and Ethiopia pending before the end of the year.
Let's face it, people from most countries in the world have it worse than people have it here in the U.S., even non-citizens.
Of course, if you make the immigration laws lax and let people know about it, you will get millions and millions of people flooding here from other countries.
But if we want the U.S. to stay at the top of the heap in its opportunities and lifestyle, then we can't have those numbers of migrants flocking here.
Trump knows this and he's actually doing something about it, no matter how much flack he gets for it.
He has restricted legal immigration a lot more than usual, but that could be because we have had at least 6 million illegal immigrants during the four years of the Biden administration.
Once ICE has a chance to do its job and get illegal immigrants back where they belong, maybe more legal immigration will be allowed.
