This is a a cruel, arbitrary, & entirely intentional move to cut off the last possible route to permanent status for many #TPS recipients before Trump finally ends their status in January, and it will hurt #EastBoston & #Chelsea more than nearly anywhere else in the U.S.
This seemingly small/technical redefinition of a vital #immigrationlaw concept is actually a fairly extreme act of administrative violence (more on which below) & yet another indicator of the creeping fash which has infiltrated DHS at all levels
FYI, immigration "parole" is simply permission to lawfully enter the U.S. (It has nothing to do with the more commonly-used criminal law term, or anything to do w/a crime at all.) It's a fairly simple concept, but has been redefined here explicitly to disadvantage TPS recipients
The reason it matters so much is that many #TPS recipients first came to the U.S. w/o permission, typically more than 20 yrs ago. Allowing people in this circumstance to clear their record w/a new lawful entry has been an uncontroversial part of our system for nearly a century.
To name only one example, INS as a matter of practice allowed undocumented farmworkers to be brought in to border checkpoints by their employers and quickly processed to be made into "drybacks" (an actual contemporary legal term, in contrast to the other one which is now a slur)
Advance parole gave #TPS recipients the same benefit, with the additional bonus of being able to see family in their home countries after decades. Upon lawful re-entry, they became eligible for residency through immediate family where they otherwise would have had a 10-yr wait
The aggregrate cruelty of this just awful. #TPSElSalvador expires 1/4/2021--although litigation should keep it alive longer--and no doubt Trumpists will be telling my clients they should've "gotten in line"... after ripping up the only thing resembling a "line" available to them.
You can't in good faith say that you support "legal immigration" while also ending even the already-limited options available for undocumented people to gain status. But ofc these are the same people telling refugees to "fix their own countries" after US policy destroyed them, so
The entire Trump/Miller approach is sternly telling undocumented people that they can only enter the house through the back door after having ripped out the three flights of stairs which are the only way to reach it... and then blaming them for their inability to fly 3 stories up
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