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TPS requires a conviction of a felony or two or more misdemeanors committed in the United States, not a mere charge for any offense at all. Many misdemeanors include minor traffic offenses.

This requirement is totally new, excluding TPS recipients making less than 125% of the poverty line. No exceptions at all except for students. This is huge departure from the current TPS program.

This increases the evidentiary standard to receive status, treating TPS recipients like applicants with a history of marriage fraud. This higher standard is 2nd only to beyond a reasonable doubt. It’ll be *much* harder for TPS recipients to meet this

The standard processing fee for an extension of TPS (status only) is ZERO, but not under McConnell’s bill https://www.uscis.gov/i-821

The bill requires TPS recipients to reapply and reprove their eligibility. This is a significant cost, with all the related fees and attorney consultations that a full applications requires. TPS extension would have been immediate at $0 cost (for status only)

Note that DHS wouldn’t need to implement this “extension of TPS” until a year from enactment, which means that throughout that time immigrants who have lost their TPS couldn’t work legally because there’s no automatic extension

The bill wouldn’t allow automatic extension of work eligibility, as a TPS extension would, meaning that TPS recipients would need to be approved for work authorization before they could work legally again

First, it only applies to four nationalities. Nepal, Sierre Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Sudan are, for whatever reason, left off, meaning that it is wrong to claim that it extends TPS in general for those harmed by Trump’s cancellations

Starting a new thread here on how the Senate GOP bill doesn't extend TPS either and actually guts it, including going forward. It is entirely new program & new restrictive status. Media should stop reporting that the bill would extend TPS

This is an idea that I have written about several times before. It is the most unjust part of constructing the border wall, taking people's land without just compensation