JD Vance warns that Trump's deportation plan includes people with TPS and 'parole'

The Republican Party’s vice presidential candidate, JD Vance made it clear that the deportation plan that former President Donald Trump advocates at his rallies will include immigrants with TPS and those with ‘parole’.

TPS is the Temporary Protected Status granted to groups of people of certain nationalities to obtain forgiveness from deportation and an Employment Authorization Document (EAD).

“Kamala Harris used two separate programs, mass parole and Temporary Protected Status. She used two programs to wave a magic wand and say, we’re not going to deport those people. Well, if Kamala Harris waves the magic wand illegally and says, ‘These people are now here legally,’ I’m still going to call them illegal aliens. And Kamala Harris’ illegal action does not make an alien legal. That’s not how this works,” he said.

Vance responded in this way to a question at a rally in Ohio, where he was questioned about the plan to deport undocumented immigrants and whether that included people with TPS and parole.

While Vance expressed his rejection of these immigration programs, at a side event in Washington, DC, the vice president Harris warned against Trump’s deportation plan.

Data from the American Immigration Council reveals that 863,880 people are protected under TPS, which must be renewed every certain period, depending on when it was approved, otherwise, beneficiaries cannot renew protection.

There are currently 16 countries assigned TPS, including El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ukraine and Venezuela, and most of those protections expire in the first half of 2025.

TPS renewal does not expand the program to more peoplesince in order to do so the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must publish a reassignment of the program for the corresponding country, where the arrival periods of the immigrants to be protected are marked.

In the case of the parole that Vance mentions, it is a program limited to two years per person, so that they can receive sponsorship from a relative or friend in the United States and be able to travel to the country with a temporary permit.

This program, which applies to people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, is estimated to have benefited nearly 500,000 immigrants, who cannot reach the United States if they do not have a sponsor and an appointment with the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, through the CBP One application.

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