Our immigration system is a pathetic joke, and it’s only going to get worse if the Dems have their way.

Via Politico:

My candidate for undercovered news story of the week: the extension of TPS for immigrants potentially subject to deportation to Honduras or Nicaragua.

What’s TPS? Unheard of in many communities, it stands for Temporary Protected Status and is well known in places with substantial populations of immigrants from Central America. (It has nothing to do with the mythical TPS reports in the movie “Office Space.”)

The provision allows the federal government to defer deportations, nominally temporarily, to countries where a problem such as natural disaster or unrest could put added stress on a country or make it unsafe for those abroad to return. Perhaps more importantly that halting deportations, it allows immigrants in the U.S. illegally from those countries to receive authorization to work here.

On Wednesday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that she was extending the legal status of immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua for another 18 months. The action was purportedly taken to allow the countries more time to recover from a hurricane. If you’re having trouble remembering a huge hurricane that hit the region recently, it’s not you. The disaster which led to the deportation halt, Hurricane Mitch, took place in the fall of 1998—more than 14 years ago.

Napolitano’s designations for Honduras and Nicaragua are the eleventh extensions of the original grants of TPS. With the passage of time, the findings in the extensions become more and more implausible, as does the notion that there is anything temporary about the program and that the conditions in those countries today are fairly traceable to the 1998 hurricane.

Keep reading…http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/06/big-s...1998-hurricane/

Those people with special rights. Week before last a hit and run driver hit and killed a rider on moped in north Carolina. Driver in red pickup truck. He was an illegal, now safe in mexico.