Biden admin 'abused' Temporary Protected Status program, admitted over 1 MILLION migrants: House Judiciary report

The House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report on Tuesday highlighting how the Biden administration abused the Temporary Protected Status program to let over 1 million migrants into the US and using the program to shield them from deportation.

"By greatly expanding the scope of populations eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), including through new designations, redesignations, and extensions of prior TPS designations, the Biden-Harris Administration attempted to indefinitely protect from deportation hundreds of thousands of aliens from certain countries," the report stated, adding that this "de facto amnesty" was "vastly expanded" under the prior administration."

The report stated that as of January 22, 2025, 1,417,265 migrants from 16 countries have been granted TPS. Under the Biden administration, 1,006,859 migrants were added in just four years. The report noted that at the end of the first Trump administration, there were just 410,406 TPS beneficiaries from 10 countries. 

Around half of all migrants granted TPS, or around 725,000, initially entered the country under the Biden administration, while around 280,000 migrants with TPS were already present in the country when the Biden administration came into office and became newly eligible due to the administration’s designations and redesignations of TPS countries.

"The vast majority of these aliens are nationals of Haiti and Venezuela, likely incentivized to enter the country due to the Biden-Harris Administration’s open-borders policies."

Before the Biden administration came into office, Venezuela had not been designated for TPS. The administration designated the nation for the program in 2021 and again in 2023. By January 22, 2025, there were 614,044 Venezuelans receiving TPS, which is just under half of all beneficiaries.

"The vast majority of Venezuela TPS beneficiaries were not initially admitted to the US with a valid visa," the report stated. "Instead, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) data show that roughly 586,000 aliens with TPS, or more than 95 percent of all Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries, were illegally paroled into the country, entered the country without inspection, provided the US government with little or no information at all about the nature of their entry into the country, or remain in the US having filed an application to claim, but who are statisticually unlikely to qualify for, asylum."

The report also noted that as of January 2021, there were 55,000 Haitian TPS beneficiaries and by the time the report was written, there were 342,360 beneficiaries from Haiti. Around 312,000 Haitian beneficiaries of the program were "illegally paroled into the country" or entered the country by similar means as their Venezuelan counterparts.

The Committee also found that around 150 migrants entered the country under the Biden administratoin and were granted TPS "from a country other than the country of nationality they indicated when they were granted parole," meaning the administration "likely granted TPS to nearly 150 aliens who defrauded the US government at the time of their initial parole, at the time of their TPS application, or both."

Because the administration "failed to verify basic information about TPS beneficiaries" and the USCIS has "little to no information bout the nature of their entry into the country" for thousands of those granted TPS, "the US government has no idea how many TPS beneficiaries are currently living in the United States."

The report noted that TPS was intended by Congress to be a temporary status, under which migrants from countries in which "there is an ongoing armed conflict" or "there has been an earthquake, flood, drought, epidemic, or other environmental disaster in the state resulting in a substantial, but temporary, disruption of living conditions," would be allowed to remain in the US for a designated period.