Joe Bidens final days in office were marked by a sweeping, behind-the-scenes effort to lock in mass immigration protections that would have tied the hands of President Trumps returning administration and further transformed the nations demographic landscape.
According to the Gateway Pundit, newly released records show that Biden officials quietly prepared an expansive use of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to shield millions of foreign nationals from deportation just as voters were restoring President Trump to the White House. As reported by Fox News and obtained by Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) through a special access request to the Archivist of the United States, a January 2025 memo outlined a plan to dramatically widen TPS coverage in what critics see as a last-ditch bid to cement Bidens open-borders legacy.
The internal document, dated in the closing stretch of Bidens tenure, indicated that the outgoing administration intended to extend TPS to more than 3 million aliens, far beyond the programs original, limited humanitarian purpose. It identified roughly 1.5 million Guatemalans, 600,000 Ecuadorians, 464,000 Nicaraguans, and 455,000 Venezuelans as still eligible for TPS, effectively placing a massive segment of the illegal population on a path to long-term protection.
The memo further flagged potential TPS coverage for nationals from Ukraine, Sudan, and Afghanistan, signaling that the Biden team was prepared to use every available lever to entrench its permissive immigration agenda. For conservatives who have watched border communities buckle under the strain of unchecked migration, the scope of this proposed expansion reads less like emergency relief and more like a deliberate policy of mass amnesty.
Even more troubling for supporters of immigration enforcement, the memo zeroed in on Haiti as a priority for TPS relief, explicitly noting that prior court challenges had thwarted many of President Trumps efforts to roll back these designations. The documents focus on Haiti is likely to raise fresh concerns in communities such as Springfield, Ohio, where residents have already experienced the social and public safety fallout from poorly vetted inflows of Haitian migrants.
The memo argued that granting TPS will potentially protect many vulnerable people from President-elect Trumps planned mass deportations They argue that these protections are likely to hold in court, and they are prepared to litigate efforts to terminate or slow down the implementation of TPS for specified nations by the Trump Administration. It went on to note that [P]rior federal litigation brought by advocates during the first Trump administration was successful in halting [its] efforts to terminate TPS, though that was due in large part to [its] failure to produce a factual record in support of termination, which is something that could be rectified.
The previous Administration unsuccessfully attempted to terminate TPS designations for Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, El Salvador, Nepal, and Honduras. Courts issued preliminary injunctions blocking the Trump Administrations actions, the memo read. Your administration took actions to resolve this litigation by either redesignating Haiti or rescinding the terminations.
Bidens aides also catalogued political pressure from the left, reminding the senior team of demands from Democratic Senators Michael Bennet, Catherine Cortez-Masto, Cory Booker, Dick Durbin, Mazie Hirono, Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy Duckworth, and Alex Padilla to keep TPS protections flowing. In addition, some stakeholders are requesting that your Administration designate nationals from new countries, most notably Ecuador and Guatemala, for TPS, the memo states, underscoring how activist groups and progressive lawmakers worked in tandem to entrench Bidens immigration posture.
Senator Schmitt, now chairing the Subcommittee on the Constitution, said the records expose a calculated attempt to override the electorates decision to restore strong borders under President Trump. My investigation uncovered that the Lame Duck Biden White House tried to keep millions of illegal aliens in our country by abusing the Temporary Protected Status program, Schmitt explained.
After the American people voted for President Trumps promise to end the TPS scam, the Biden administration tried to subvert the will of the American people. This was mass amnesty-by-decree. America is for Americans, and it is our homeit is not a permanent refugee camp, he added, framing the memo as proof that the prior regime sought to use bureaucratic maneuvers and friendly courts to lock in its radical immigration vision even as its mandate expired.
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