In July, the Biden-Harris administration extended and “redesignated” something called Temporary Protected Status for Somalis who are present in the U.S. illegally, allowing them to stay here until 2026.
Over 700,000 Venezuelan nationals also enjoy this immigration status or are eligible for it under this presidential administration, and more about them later.
Somalia got its initial Temporary Protected Status designation in 1991—before most Somalis were born, since the median age there is 15. Its protected status under U.S. immigration law—and that of other countries such as Venezuela and El Salvador—just keeps getting extended and expanded, over and over.
This makes the process a parallel, quasi-asylum procedure without any basis in law.
Congress created Temporary Protected Status with the intention of protecting those foreign nationals already in the…
