Debate on ending temporary protected status (TPS) found a former congressional candidate dumbfounded over former President Joe Biden’s open border policies.
“What are you talking about?”
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Tuesday on “CNN NewsNight,” the topic of national sovereignty erupted and found host Abby Phillip stepping to navigate away from a driving force of the current challenges facing federal immigration officials.
After priming the debate with the topic of termination of TPS for thousands of Haitians, making them subject to deportation, along with a new rule from President Donald Trump’s administration streamlining the asylum process by allowing seekers to be placed directly in front of a judge without an interview to address backlogs, talk of surging arrests at airports found Market Rebellion CEO Marc LoPresti turning to the failures under Biden.
“I think the issue, Abby, is that the scope of the problem with Biden’s open border policies, we did allow a lot of people that should not be here in an unprecedented scale to come into this country,” he began while bringing up his own family’s history of immigration, quickly earning an inaudible interjection by former Texas congressional candidate Isaiah Martin seeking the definition of a term.
Reaffirming the importance of due process, he LoPresti continued, “What happens is when the pendulum swings in either direction, Abby, too far, the response is often commensurately too far.”
Willing to agree that some deportation efforts may be “too far,” he argued the revocation of TPS would result in a review, leading Martin to wonder at a reason for taking the action in the first place. After Biden’s open border policy was raised, the Democrat politician asked, “What is that open border policy? Can you define what that means?”
“I can tell you that there were … 3,000 murders committed by illegal aliens,” responded LoPresti as the back-and-forth was met with, “I’m asking you what is the open border policy? Can you define what that is? What policy?”
“Letting people flow over the border-” began a response as another interjection wondered, “How did they let? There were still immigration officers. What are you talking about? Define the policy.”
As Martin attempted to suggest that the presence of Border Patrol officials along the border was a refutation of the notion that there was an open border policy under the Biden administration which paroled large swaths of illegal aliens into the country, Phillip stepped in, “Hold on. I think we’re getting — we’re mixing a bunch of different issues at the same time, right? Because what we’re talking about today are specific groups of people. TPS holders are people who are here because they are fleeing a terrible situation in their home countries.”
It was at that point that the argument shifted to whether or not, given the Level 4 travel advisory applied to Haiti by the United States, any Haitian nationals formerly under TPS should be returned there while ignoring the potential that any of those foreign nationals could be linked to the violence making Haiti unsafe to begin with.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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