Senators push for more “temporary” refugees—Syrians this time
Posted by Ann Corcoran on March 4, 2012
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has turned into a
joke. Maybe there were good intentions behind the idea of giving
“temporary” refuge to people in the US (legally or ILLEGALLY) when their
home country was embroiled in war or had been recently hit by a natural
disaster, but now it has become one more backdoor amnesty.I’ve written several posts recently at Potomac Tea Party Report and here at RRW about TPS for Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Syrians.
So what is the problem? They never go home! As I have oft repeated, ‘there is nothing quite so permanent as a temporary refugee’ (Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies). And, by the way, “temporary” refugees are given work permits and can do anything a US citizen can do except vote (and they are probably doing that too!).
Now here is Fox News telling us that six US Senators are pushing Obama to grant TPS to Syrians (they estimate around 10,000 are in the US legally at this moment, but they don’t know how many illegal Syrians are here).
Several Democratic senators are calling on
the Obama administration to allow Syrians who are already in the United
States to stay, at least temporarily, out of concern it would be “too
dangerous” for them to return home.
The senators want President Obama to
invoke what’s known as “temporary protected status” for thousands of
Syrians in the U.S. The designation typically is given to foreign
nationals whose home countries are beset by war or natural disaster and
who could face harm should they return.
The senators argued that Syrians in the
U.S. are in just that kind of predicament, as Syrian leader Bashar
Assad’s regime sustains its bloody crackdown on protesters across the
country.
“It is obviously too dangerous for Syrian nationals to return to Syria,” the senators wrote in a letter to President Obama.
Arab advocacy groups have been calling for the federal government to grant the status for Syrians in the U.S.
The designation, however, is controversial
as Washington tends to repeatedly extend “temporary” status. Critics
claim the status can become semi-permanent. The government currently
grants “TPS” to people from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti,
Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan.
Here are the six Senators pushing this latest backdoor amnesty program (no surprise!):
The letter was signed by Sens. Dick
Durbin, D-Ill.; Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Robert
Menendez, D-N.J.; Ben Cardin, D-Md.; and Bob Casey, D-Pa.
And, just a reminder of the Arab activist agitators and refugee contractors pushing the Senators:
United for a Free Syria (UFS), in close
coordination with a broad coalition including the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Syrian Expatriates Organization
(SEO), Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), Syrian Americans for
Democracy (SAD), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI),* and Refugee Council USA (RCUSA)
So, where does this all end? Will we have TPS for every political
hot spot, every hurricane, every earthquake in the world. And, why are
the Syrians more important than say the Libyans, the Yemenis, the
Egyptians, the Nigerians and so forth—all experiencing upheaval of one
sort or another.Remember TPS isn’t just for those who are here legally on some visa or another; the TPS given to Salvadorans and other Central Americans went largely to ILLEGAL aliens.
* HIAS and USCRI are federal refugee contractors whose bankroll comes mostly from you—the taxpayer.
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