{"id":8887,"date":"2015-05-07T17:18:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8887"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:19:16","slug":"more-executive-discretion-yemenis-get-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/05\/07\/more-executive-discretion-yemenis-get-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"More Executive “Discretion”: Yemenis Get to Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"
The law provides relief for certain foreigners who are in the United States when war or natural disaster in their homeland prevents their return. It is called Temporary Protected Status<\/a>. TPS protects the designees from deportation and grants them legal work status even if they were illegally in the country prior to the event that triggered the TPS declaration.<\/p>\n The TPS provision has increasingly become tainted by abuse as TPS designations have been mindlessly extended for political reasons<\/a> and at the pleading of foreign governments spurred by the dollars sent home<\/a> by these workers. Examples of TPS abuse<\/a> are Honduras and Nicaragua<\/a> which have had TPS for their mostly illegal alien population from before December 1998 as a result of extensions every 18 months. The massive hurricane damage that hit in 1988 has long since ceased to be a justification for continuing the temporary protection as nationals of those countries come legally to the U.S. and return home in large numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n