It’s official: Donald Trump’s plan for massive deportations would apply to legal immigrants, as well as undocumented immigrants.

During an exclusive interview with NewsNation, Trump said he planned to strip the legal status of the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, who have been granted Temporary Protected Status.

“Springfield is such a beautiful place; have you seen what’s happened to it? It’s been overrun. They have to be removed,” Trump said.

“So you would revoke the Temporary Protected Status?” asked the interviewer.

“Absolutely, I’d revoke it and I’d bring them back to their country,” Trump said.


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So he’s gonna send his wife back? Sounds about right since she said she supports abortion.

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The headline makes this sound more encompassing than what he says. Revoking temporary legal status is different than revoking from people with green cards or naturalized citizens. I don’t agree with what he’s saying he will do, but it’s worth clarifying which group of people this actually effects.

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It’s all stepping stones for them. That’s why they say everything they don’t like is a slippery slope, because that’s how they work.

Like it just happened. First it was illegal, now it’s the legal temporary. Next it will be legal _____, etc, etc.

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Fascism always needs a new enemy each time it has dealt with the last one. That’s why no one is safe from these neo-Nazis.

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Is it worth? He didn’t care for what status or protection this specific group had. It’s not like he’s making an argument for that type of asylum. If it’s mexican greencard holders he thinks are eating the dogs, they’ll be next.

The headline is accurate, he wants to deport people who are in the US lawfully.

They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in

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Because we all know he will stop there.

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This isn’t the actual point, it’s about canceling citizenship for 2nd generation kids, because they might not vote for the same rednecks they believe should be running the country.

Ironically, if they were even marginally human and unracist, those conservative catholic Mexicans would vote GOP in droves, it’s just the brutal, inhuman explicit racism that pushed them blue.

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Her anchor baby, Barron, needs to go too.

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Can we send Elon back to South Africa? There’s some sketchy stuff he did with his student visa.

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Only when they divorce.

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It depends on if he saved the receipt.

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Let’s hope Elon goes first.

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Trump and the interviewer are talking about Temporary Protected Status, which is temporary.

A TPS designation can be made for 6, 12, or 18 months at a time. At least 60 days prior to the expiration of TPS, the Secretary [of Homeland Security] must decide whether to extend or terminate a designation based on the conditions in the foreign country.

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TPS eligibility for people from Haiti will last until February 3, 2026 unless it is extended. If during a Trump presidency, the federal government does not extend TPS for Haiti, it would be acting well within its established authority.

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Hmm, isn’t he suggesting that he would revoke their status? That is very different from ‘deciding not to extend it’.

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The interviewer was the one who used the word “revoke” but Trump does seem like the kind of person who could attempt to end the TPS designation early rather than waiting for it to simply expire a year into his term. Such an attempt would have very little chance of success. Decisions to terminate (as opposed to revoke early) TPS status during Trump’s past presidency are still going through the courts (see Ramos, et al. v. Nielsen, et al.) and not in effect.

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The interviewer asked if he would revoke it and he said yes he would revoke it. Words have meaning. He was asked a question, and he answered it very clearly and honestly more lucidly than his average response. He repeated the word revoke.

If he meant “let expire” he would have said “No, I wouldn’t revoke it but I would allow that to expire.” I don’t know what here is ambiguous. I get it, people hate Trump enough that sometimes they fill in the blanks with the worst possible thing. It’s hard to blame them because he usually says the worst possible things, but regardless that isn’t what is happening here.

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That isn’t what Trump means and you know it.

Revoking and not extending are two different things.

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Then why didn’t he say

Absolutely, I’d NOT EXTEND it and I’d bring them back to their country,” Trump said.

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Defo 2 very different things

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The federal government uses the term “terminate” rather than “revoke” to describe the decision not to extend TPS, but even the article the OP posted (which is very critical of Trump’s plan) interprets what he said as “not extend”.

Now Trump plans to forcibly uproot this group of roughly 18,000 people who pay taxes, own homes, have jobs, and support their families. But that’s only the beginning: Up to 2.7 million people could lose protection from deportation if Trump allows immigration programs such as Temporary Protected Status, DACA, and humanitarian parole to lapse during a second term, according to Forbes.

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Man, I can’t believe 10 years of Trump and people are still doing this “sure, he said that, but he’s actually a brilliant legal and political tactician and what he means is…

The man is a moron, surrounded by the most hateful motherfuckers on the planet. He says what he Fucking means.

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When he says terrible shit he is saying what he means.

He also frequently says non-terrible shit, but then contradicts himself shortly after so we know that whe he says something that isn’t terrible then he is lying.

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You can’t have it both ways. Trump supporters say “he tells it like it is” and then turn around and say “well he didn’t actually mean what he said, he actually meant this other thing”. Which is it?

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Deport his wife and Elon.

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