A lot of people on the left are freaking out over the Supreme Court’s ruling on the TPS program that began under Obama, which granted temporary protected status to illegal immigrants from Haiti living in the United States. It was later expanded to also cover people from Syria.
Due to the SCOTUS ruling, the Trump administration can deport these people and liberals are outraged.
You will see plenty of angry tweets from Democrat leaders about TPS but almost none of them mention what the ‘T’ in TPS stands for. They don’t want to remind the public that this was supposed to be TEMPORARY.
In the video from 2010 below, Janet Napolitano, then serving as Obama’s DHS secretary, announces the program and says it will last for 18 months. That was 16 years ago.
Transcript by Twitter/X video clipper, the Western Lensman:
“Lastly, as has been widely reported yesterday, I signed the order beginning for the process of TPS status for Haitians already in the United States. This is a kind of an intermediate immigration status that allows those who are here to remain and to work, and as they work, of course, many send remittances back home.
This in and of itself, is a form of support to Haiti and a form of economic assistance to Haiti. To qualify, you must have been in the United States before January the 12th, the date of the earthquake.
It will be good for 18 months from the date of the issuance. So that will be in July of 2011. So for Haitians in the country who were here before the earthquake, we are now opening up the process of TPS, that intermediate immigration status for you.”
Here’s the video:
January 2010. Obama’s DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announces that she signed the Haitian TPS order:
“It will be good for 18 months from the date of the issuance. So that will be in July of 2011.”
That’s how it was introduced. 16 years ago.
Full Clip Transcript:
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— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 29, 2026
Sixteen years is temporary?
It’s almost like the Democrats knew that nothing about this program was supposed to be temporary at all. They thought the public would completely forget about it and those people would just quietly turn into more Democrat voters.
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