Chip Roy: “In 2010, Haitians were granted temporary status--temporary--after a severe earthquake struck their country. Since then…”

“In 2010, Haitians were granted temporary status--temporary--after a severe earthquake struck their country. Since then, thousands of foreign nationals from Haiti have remained in the United States due to the renewal of this flawed program. Over and over again, that which was supposed to be temporary has become, effectively, permanent. I have heard a lot of numbers flying around here talking about the number of Haitians, 350,000, on TPS who will be taken out of healthcare. It is a fraction of that number that is actually in healthcare. Let's be honest. My friend from Texas (Mr. Gill) noted earlier that 65 percent of the population is on welfare. Mr. Speaker, 65 percent of the population that came in here under a temporary status is now living off of the taxpayer dollars of American taxpayers because we continue this flawed program. Let's also talk about the reality that we have 91 percent of all Haiti TPS holders enter the country illegally, deliberately violating our immigration laws, and are now using TPS status to stay in the United States. This is not what this program was designed to do.”