I want to thank the gentlewoman for
organizing us this evening and really moderating what we all have to
say here today. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my concern for the more than
300,000 temporary protected status beneficiaries who are under attack
from this administration. Temporary protected status was signed into law with bipartisan
support by President George H. W. Bush as part of the Immigration Act
of 1990. Since then, it has been used in roughly equal numbers by
Democratic and Republican Presidents alike. This program is based on a
simple idea that we can all agree upon: the idea that it is immoral to
send someone back to a country suffering from famine, disease, war, or
governmental collapse where they could reasonably expect to perish.
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