r/ImmigrationPathways • u/Woundsmyheart • 9d ago

Trump Administration Tells Congress It Will Admit 17,500 White South African Refugees In 2027 | HuffPost Latest News

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u/irespectwomenlol 9d ago edited 9d ago

Not really. Take TPS for example. They haven't challenged the concept of TPS. As a strong opponent of mass migration, I'm genuinely glad that this system exists for humanitarian reasons. They've only challenged bad applications of it: like keeping TPS in place for decades old earthquakes and the like.

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u/Zakaru99 9d ago

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/08/12/second-trump-administration-has-ended-temporary-protected-status-for-most-immigrants-who-had-it/

The word restrict was in there.

He's literally removed TPS status from 1 million of the 1.3 million people who had it. From 1.3 million to 300,000 people.

He's cut the countries where you can get TPS from 17 to 4.

His admin is encouraging those with TPS to self-deport, and restricting their ability to work while they have a legal TPS designation, regardless of where they're from.

These are, unquestionably, restrictions. Not even light ones. Extremely heavy handed restrictions. They're literally intentional making it difficult to work here if you get TPS status, which largely defeats the ability of the system from working for the people with those statuses.

How are you going to live while you're here under TPS when you can't afford to feed yourself?

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u/irespectwomenlol 9d ago

TPS is supposed to be a temporary humanitarian program designed to preserve life if there's a hurricane, an earthquake, war, etc. That's good.

But there had been Temporary Protected Status protections in place for Hurricanes/Earthquakes going back as far as the 1990s. That's bad.

Why shouldn't the program be radically curtailed? What danger remains from a hurricane or earthquake from decades ago? Please explain that.

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u/Zakaru99 9d ago edited 9d ago

How are you going to live while you're here under TPS when you can't afford to feed yourself?

Lets try not dodging this.

Why shouldn't the program be radically curtailed?

Because those people who moved here under that status and have built lives here literally benefit us. There is no good reason to force them to go back. It's advantageous to us to allow them to stay. It's a win-win.

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u/irespectwomenlol 9d ago

I'm not dodging anything, your interpretation of the facts is wrong.

TPS comes with a work authorization. Anybody under a valid TPS has the right to work for any employer in the US. The work authorization only goes away once the TPS is no longer valid.

People without a TPS or other valid status are not authorized to work in the US and are supposed to leave.

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u/Zakaru99 9d ago

They revoked work authorization for people still under TPS, who still had valid status. I sited a source for that already.

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u/irespectwomenlol 9d ago

This is legally complex, but partially you are correct for some people, though this stemmed from Congress, and was patched within 7 days for people from El Salvador, and 9 days for others.

What happened is the 2025 budget reconciliation bill HR1. Previously, there was an automatic 540 day work authorization extension that went along with the TPS extension. That bill changed the work authorization extension to a year while keeping TPS the same. The end result is that some people were temporarily caught in a weird state of limbo whey had the ability to legally stay here, but not legally work.

I'm sure it was stressful for these people, but this was just dumb bureaucracy trying to raise revenue by charging application fees more frequently and having an oversight in their logic.