The administration likes to say TPS was supposed to be temporary. Legally, that is true. But the work was not temporary. The taxes were not temporary. The children born here were not temporary. The businesses were not temporary. The care relationships were not temporary. The call bell answered at 2 a.m. was not temporary.
America has every right to run an immigration system with rules. But rules are supposed to serve reality, not deny it. If a person has lived here for years, worked legally, paid taxes, raised children, cared for the elderly, and helped keep a community functioning, the country should have a better answer than: pack up, vanish, or become illegal. The first harm falls on the TPS families whose lives are being upended. After that, the effects move outward: to the nursing home that cannot fill shifts, the home-care agency that cannot keep clients, the contractor that loses a crew member, the hotel short of housekeepers, the warehouse short of drivers, the small business district losing the people who brought it back.
The victory may feel immediate to its loudest supporters. The costs will arrive more slowly, but they will spread much more widely.
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