In El Salvador and Honduras, the return of 250,000
people would strain government services and lead to job displacement in
countries besieged by violence, drug trafficking, and weak
institutions. So let me just clear it up for a lot of Americans sitting at home and
asking: Well, why does this affect us? Thirty percent of TPS recipients are homeowners in the United States. So just think about the consequences of simultaneously dumping 60,000
mortgages on the U.S. housing market. Think about 13,000 mortgages in
Texas, 5,000 mortgages in Florida, 4,100 in Virginia. The mass
deportation alone will cost the taxpayers of this country more than $3
billion. Oftentimes, we find ourselves in this place, in this body arguing
about the fiscal argument of things and talking about how it would
affect our economy--which I just did--talking about how it would hurt
the U.S. market in foreclosures and mortgages, and we give all of these
examples of how this could bankrupt the United States. The bigger concern we have, and that this administration should have,
is that this country is on the fast track to moral bankruptcy because
we do not stand up when we are supposed to; we don't call out wrong
when we see it; and, too often, we turn our backs to injustice.
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