Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, former President Donald J. He vowed to eliminate work permit programs.
“What Donald Trump is proposing is to end mass parole,” Vance said at a campaign event in Peoria, Arizona, saying he would end mass granting of temporary protected status. “Of course it will free people from oppression, but that will happen on a case-by-case basis. It will be judged on a case-by-case basis, not by the waving of a magical government’s wand.”
About 864,000 immigrants have legal residency through a program known as Temporary Protected Status, which Congress created in 1990 for people fleeing war or other crisis in their home countries. . The program currently provides legal protection to immigrants from 16 countries, most of them from Venezuela, El Salvador, and Haiti.
Mr. Trump vowed this month to strip the legal status of Haitian immigrants, who have been the target of accusations by the former president and Mr. Vance, most notably in Springfield, Ohio. Vance’s remarks Tuesday appeared to expand on that pledge, saying all immigrants granted Temporary Protected Status must find another way to stay in the country or face deportation. He suggested that we need to face the issue. Immigrants from many of these countries will have no clear path to temporary protection.
A representative for Mr. Vance declined to comment when asked about the details of his plan to end his temporary protected status.
Mr. Vance also appears to have proposed ending other parole programs that allow hundreds of thousands of immigrants to reside in the United States for short periods without visas or green cards. The Biden administration this month targeted people from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua, reflecting the political pressures President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are facing on immigration and a desire to slow down attacks. announced that it would revoke one of these programs. In the final days before the election, we heard from Republicans on this issue.
A Telemundo reporter spoke to Vance in Peoria about Trump’s pledge to deport Haitians living in the United States under Temporary Protected Status, and how the effort will protect immigrants from other countries or those participating in other migration programs. I asked if it would extend to that. Vance reiterated that immigrants in these programs are “illegal immigrants” even though they are in the country legally, and blamed rising costs and other problems.
“That’s what Kamala Harris did,” Vance said at a munitions factory in Peoria. We must stop people from being in this country who do not have a legal right to be in this country. ”
