Report | De Facto Mass Amnesty: How The Biden-Harris Administration Abused Temporary Protected Status To Shield Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Aliens From Deportation
March 4, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement released an interim staff report titled, "De Facto Mass Amnesty: How The Biden-Harris Administration Abused Temporary Protected Status To Shield Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Aliens From Deportation." The report reveals new data that shows how the Biden-Harris Administration significantly expanded Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in an attempt to indefinitely protect from deportation hundreds of thousands of aliens from certain countries.
What was intended by Congress to be a temporary status has become, over time, a permanent, automatically renewed designation, with some countries being designated for TPS for decades despite changed country conditions. The Biden-Harris Administration vastly expanded this de facto amnesty to hundreds of thousands of new aliens, many of whom are in the country illegally and who entered the country during the Biden-Harris border crisis.
New data uncovered by the Committee reveals the scope of the abuse of TPS wrought by the Biden-Harris Administration:
What was intended by Congress to be a temporary status has become, over time, a permanent, automatically renewed designation, with some countries being designated for TPS for decades despite changed country conditions. The Biden-Harris Administration vastly expanded this de facto amnesty to hundreds of thousands of new aliens, many of whom are in the country illegally and who entered the country during the Biden-Harris border crisis.
New data uncovered by the Committee reveals the scope of the abuse of TPS wrought by the Biden-Harris Administration:
- The Biden-Harris Administration funneled hundreds of thousands of aliens it illegally paroled into the country into TPS in an attempt to indefinitely shield them from deportation.
- The majority of Venezuela and Haiti TPS recipients were not initially admitted pursuant to a valid visa.
- More than 95 percent of Venezuela TPS beneficiaries and 91 percent of Haiti TPS beneficiaries were illegally paroled into the country, entered the country without inspection, provided the U.S. government little or no information at all about the nature of their entry into the country, or remain in the U.S. having filed an application to claim, but are statistically unlikely to qualify for, asylum.
- The number of aliens with TPS nearly quadrupled during the Biden-Harris Administration, adding 1,006,859 aliens in just four years.
- More than half of all aliens granted TPS initially entered the U.S. during the Biden-Harris Administration.
After four years of rampant immigration fraud and abuse under the Biden-Harris Administration, the Committee and Subcommittee will continue to conduct vigorous oversight and work with the Trump Administration to make the long-needed reforms to our immigration system.
Read the full interim staff report here.
Read the full interim staff report here.
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