A newly uncovered Biden White House memo shows senior advisers plotted to shield over 3.1 million noncitizens from President Trump’s deportation plans by stretching a “temporary” program far beyond its original purpose.
Story Snapshot
- Biden advisers urged last‑minute use of Temporary Protected Status to block Trump’s promised mass deportations for more than 3.1 million noncitizens.
- The memo highlighted court fights that had stopped Trump from ending prior protections and predicted more lawsuits to tie up his new enforcement agenda.
- Requests covered huge new TPS eligibility pools for Guatemalans, Ecuadorians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and others, turning a narrow program into a broad shield.
- Senator Eric Schmitt says the document proves the lame‑duck Biden team tried to sabotage border enforcement and leave President Trump with a worse immigration crisis.
Biden Memo Lays Out Plan to Shield Millions With “Temporary” Status
A newly obtained internal memo from the Biden White House, released by Senator Eric Schmitt, shows senior advisers laying out a menu of last‑minute immigration moves in the final weeks before President Trump returned to office. The memo recommends using Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, to expand protections to more than 3.1 million noncitizens, far beyond the program’s original emergency mission. Under TPS, eligible migrants can stay in the United States, get work permits, and avoid deportation while their status remains in place.
The memo’s appendix lists staggering numbers for potential new TPS eligibility, including about 1.5 million Guatemalans, 600,000 Ecuadorians, 464,000 Nicaraguans, 455,000 Venezuelans, plus smaller groups from Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Sudan. Advisers also recorded requests from Democratic lawmakers, big‑city mayors, and immigration advocacy groups that wanted these designations locked in before Biden left office. These stakeholders saw TPS as a way to secure long‑term protection for large migrant populations, no matter what voters had just decided in the 2024 election.
Memo Explicitly Targets Trump’s Deportation Agenda With Lawfare
The memo does more than list numbers; it directly frames TPS as a tool to weaken President Trump’s promised mass deportations. One section notes that granting TPS would “protect many vulnerable people from President‑elect Trump’s planned mass deportations” and emphasizes that advocates are ready to fight in court to keep those protections. The authors point out that lawsuits had already blocked many of Trump’s earlier efforts to end TPS, and they predict that new designations would likely survive in front of liberal judges.
Senator Schmitt says this language shows clear intent to weaponize the legal system against border enforcement, using TPS as a “deportation shield” built to trap Trump in years of litigation. The memo even concedes that TPS applications take about six months to process, meaning any last‑minute surge of new designations would dump a huge backlog on the incoming administration. Biden advisers knew Trump officials would inherit both the paperwork and a wall of lawsuits from activist groups, making it harder to carry out the will of voters who wanted tougher immigration rules.
Last‑Minute Extensions and the Fight Over TPS Abuse
Not every proposal in the memo was carried out, but some were. Schmitt notes that roughly one week after the January 2025 document was transmitted—despite being misdated “2024” in places—Biden extended TPS protections for nearly one million Venezuelan, Salvadoran, and Ukrainian nationals. That step gave real legal benefits to a large group of migrants right before President Trump took office, while echoing the memo’s push to lock in more people under the program.
REPORT: A newly uncovered BOMBSHELL Biden White House memo reveals the administration sought to expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than 3.1M migrants in his final days in office, according to Fox News.
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The bigger expansions for Ecuador and Guatemala, totaling about 2.1 million potential new beneficiaries, were never fully implemented, but Senator Schmitt argues the plan itself is alarming. To him, the memo confirms a long‑running pattern on the left: take a “temporary” emergency tool and stretch it into near‑permanent status for massive numbers of illegal migrants. Schmitt has already moved to block new TPS expansions in the Senate and is pushing broader reforms, including ending sanctuary cities and backing “mass deportations” to match the scale of the border crisis President Trump inherited.
Sources:
thegatewaypundit.com, foxnews.com, twitchy.com, alto.gab.com, schmitt.senate.gov
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