President Donald Trump cannot end President Joe Biden’s award of the quasi-amnesty Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to migrants because they expand U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), says an appeal to the Supreme Court for an April 29 hearing.
The legal brief by pro-migration economists says Biden’s 1.4 million TPS migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, El Salvador, and other countries now use their quasi-amnesty status to annually earn $30.9 billion in wages and create $20 billion in profits for investors. The economists wrote:
The economic record therefore refutes the Government’s claimed justifications [for ending TPS] and reinforces the conclusion of the two district courts that the agency likely acted without reasoned basis. [Emphasis added].
But the economists are wrong to claim that GDP — and investor gains — are the nation’s top economic priorities, responded Steve Camarota, the research director at the Center for Immigration Studies. He continued:
The fundamental problem
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