Biden Thwarts Trump’s Deportation Plans with Migrant Protections

What’s happening: President Joe Biden’s outgoing border chief, Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas, has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for around 900,000 migrants, including 234,000 from El Salvador and 600,000 from Venezuela, until 2026. Migrants from El Salvador, Sudan, and Ukraine were also included.

The reasoning: DHS pointed to environmental disasters in El Salvador, political and economic crises in Venezuela, violence and political instability in Sudan, and the ongoing war in Ukraine as reasons to extend their protections.

Complicating Trump’s plans: President-elect Donald Trump has made mass deportations a central part of his agenda, having honed in specifically on Venezuelans involved in the Tren de Aragua gang that has wreaked havoc across America.

Delays: This order from the Biden administration will make it nearly impossible for Trump to deport these illegal or quasi-legal migrants for the first year and a half of his presidency.

A blessing in disguise? The director of the right-leaning Center for Immigration Studies, Mark Krikorian, noted that this extension effectively gives Trump officials a "gift" by pushing the decision to a more manageable time frame.

More: Trump’s immigration deputies will be swamped with the “shock and awe” Trump has promised on Day One of his presidency. The 18-month extension may allow Trump’s team time to put together a comprehensive plan for how to roll out mass deportations for tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants.

Why it matters: The Biden administration gave dubious reasons for extending TPS for nearly one million migrants, like excessive rainfall, when the intention of granting extended protections was to protect them from the imminent danger of returning home. Biden has now blocked a key Trump agenda item, hindering his predecessor’s — and successor’s — efforts to address Biden's failures on mass illegal migration.

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From the left: NPR reported on El Salvadoran migrants and how many of them were granted amnesty in the 1990s because they were escaping a brutal civil war. Many of them now have children here, complicating deportations.

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Ernest Sidlo1 year ago

The sabotage and betrayals by Biden and the Democrat administrative state will be a challenge for President-elect Donald J Trump, but have no fear... You can bet he is already leaps and bounds ahead of their treachery....

Joey Jay1 year ago

I’d go about doing what I promised the American people, the hell with this Biden nonsense.

Alc Cookeville1 year ago

Biden is, and has always been, Prince of Petty and King of Spite! If it will be HARMFUL to the United States, he is all for it. Hopefully we'll be able to say, "Good Riddance" on 1/20/25.

Joy Carlson1 year ago

Is this chiseled in stone? What a president giveth, a president can taketh away, especially for criminals. At the very least, round them up, detain them, and get the deportation ball rolling.

sharon smith1 year ago

The way I see Trump playing his cards is that he makes statements, releasing plans that his opponents can't help but answer, often in the very ways that will help, rather than hinder Trump's original plans. I see his opponents playing right into his hands and that goes beyond just the immigration problems. Following what looked like brash commentary of his future plans, countries are falling into place before he even takes office. Fear of the unknown worked last time and it's definitely a factor this time around! Go Trump! I hope Vance will be just as strong.... and mysterious when he is elected!!

sharon smith1 year ago

Trump has much more than deportations on his plate right now, so a bit of hesitation for some of our illegal immigrants can be afforded, with the exception of the Venezuelan gangs who should be rounded up and deported immediately, if not sooner, despite Biden's order. Let Maduro deal with them!

David McCool1 year ago

The media is complicit in ignoring our constitution and the rule of law… educated by illiberal leftist institutions of higher learning is what is destroying western civilization. Until reformed, cut funding to colleges and universities whose administrative and professorial political makeup does not reflect our society. Our professional elites sadly lack critical thinking/analysis skills required to make cogent political decisions.

Doug Ebbecke1 year ago

Never a doubt that the current administration would do everything and anything they could to create problems and obstacles for Trump to fulfill his campaign promises. There the exact reason he won the election. All this is doing is reinforcing how much they don’t care what voters want and how much they want weaken our country.