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A briefing memo uncovered by a Republican lawmaker reportedly pressed former President Joe Biden, in the waning days of his presidency, to extend or re-designate migrants who were receiving so-called Temporary Protected Status in the United States, potentially sticking incoming President Donald Trump with an even bigger immigration crisis to sweep up.

According to Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri, the move would have given over 3 million individuals legal protection under TPS, arguing that Trump had difficulty during his first term challenging such designations.

“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 told Fox News Friday.

“After the American people voted for President Trump’s 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 home — it is not a permanent refugee camp,” he added.

Schmitt said in a post that he “obtained this memo from the Archivist of the United States as part of a special access request I made as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution.”

TPS is supposed to be a program whereby people from a designated country who are in the United States get temporary protection to live and to work here due to some form of disaster or instability in their home country. However, the “temporary” part of Temporary Protected Status is a bit of a mockery.

For instance, El Salvador initially received TPS because it “suffered a devastating earthquake on January 13, 2001, and experienced two more earthquakes on February 13 and 17, 2001,” according to the Federal Register. It is still thusly designated, despite the efforts of the Trump administration, with the last extension coming just days before Biden left office. A judge temporarily blocked an attempt to strip Salvadorian TPS asylum-seekers of their status earlier this week.

And, according to a memo dated Jan. 2, 2025, sent to the president by his senior advisers, the legal limbo is all by design.

The memo, as published by Schmitt, details how “to expand TPS before YOU leave office,” including through an extension, which “enables those already covered by an existing grant of TPS to retain their protection and........

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