From Immigration To Gerrymandering, Democrats Keep Using The Word ‘Temporary’ To Mean ‘Forever’

Congress proved once again on Thursday that the word “temporary” rarely means what it says when several Republicans joined Democrats to extend the longstanding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians by another three years.

As Theo Wold, former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, pointed out on X, “Somalians first received TPS in 1991. Haitians first received TPS in 2010. Both were supposed to last 18 months but continue until this day. Mass migration didn’t take over America over night. It happened through years of ‘temporary’ exceptions.”

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