“Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance said Wednesday that Haitian migrants with legal immigration status are “illegal aliens” who have been unlawfully protected from deportation, suggesting that would change if Trump wins the election.”
Articles like this remind me of how absolutely fucked we are if these assholes win.
I'm not even sure this is them being actually dumb, or if it's the case that they realised "Haitian" is just the perfect socially passable shorthand for "non-white" they've been looking for.
TPS is a lawful status in federal law. But it's also not a regular immigration status that you'd get with an actual immigrant visa.
The idea is that TPS recipients are going to ship back out just as soon as Haiti (or wherever) gets its act together again. It's not a very secure status and does not lead to green cards or naturalization.
Reps, Senators, Supreme Court Justices, and anyone in a position that's in the chain of succession for the Presidency, should be required to pass the same test that immigrants take to become citizens. It wouldn't be perfect, but then at least we'd know for sure it's intentional malice and not just complete buffoonery.