The corruption of the Biden era is being unearthed. It’s more stomach turning than anyone thought.
Because the U.S. House just uncovered an illegal amnesty scheme from the Joe Biden tenure.
Biden’s Immigration Legacy: A Mess Trump Inherits
Joe Biden may have left the White House, but the fallout from his immigration policies continues to haunt the nation—and now it’s President Donald Trump who’s left to grapple with the wreckage. A scathing report from the House Judiciary Committee, released on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, rips into Biden’s aggressive expansion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS)—a program meant as a fleeting lifeline for immigrants from crisis-hit countries. Under Biden, it ballooned into what the committee calls “de facto amnesty,” a sly end-run around Congress that’s dumped millions of undocumented immigrants into America’s lap.
The committee pulls no punches in its assessment. “What was intended by Congress to be a temporary status has become, over time, a permanent, automatically renewed designation, with some countries being designated for TPS for decades despite changed country conditions,” it declared in a press release tied to the report. During Biden’s tenure, this wasn’t just a tweak—it was a takeover. By late January 2025, just days after Trump’s inauguration, over 1.4 million immigrants from 16 countries held TPS protections, with more than 1 million of those added under Biden’s watch. The committee ties this explosion directly to what it dubs the “Biden-Harris border crisis.”
“The Biden-Harris Administration vastly expanded this de facto amnesty to hundreds of thousands of new aliens, many of whom are in the country illegally and who entered the country during the Biden-Harris border crisis,” the report states. Now, with Biden out and Trump in, the new administration faces a policy that’s less about temporary relief and more about entrenching an illegal population—without a single vote from Congress.
A Staggering Surge: 340% and Counting
The numbers tell a grim story. A December report alleged that Biden’s loose-handed use of TPS had already driven a 240% spike in foreign nationals shielded from deportation and granted interim legal status. By the end of his term, that figure had swelled to 340%, a tidal wave of protections that’s left Trump with a border security nightmare. This isn’t a minor hiccup—it’s a full-blown crisis, handed off like a live grenade.
Venezuelans, escaping the iron fist of Nicolás Maduro and a collapsing economy, made up about half of Biden’s TPS recipients. He first tagged Venezuela for TPS in 2021, then renewed it in 2023. But the committee’s findings reveal the ugly truth: over 95% of these recipients were “illegally paroled into the country, entered the country without inspection, provided the U.S. government with little or no information at all about the nature of their entry into the country, or remain in the U.S. having filed an application to claim, but who are statistically unlikely to qualify for, asylum.” Translation? Biden didn’t just open the door—he handed out free passes to illegal border-hoppers.
Haitians, accounting for a quarter of TPS recipients, mirror this trend. More than 91% were illegally paroled into the U.S. under sketchy circumstances, yet they snagged the same protections. This wasn’t a humanitarian gesture—it was a free-for-all, and now Trump’s stuck cleaning it up.
Biden didn’t stop at Venezuela and Haiti. Over his four years, he stretched TPS to cover immigrants from more than 17 countries, from conflict zones like Syria and Ukraine to struggling nations like Honduras and Yemen. The roster—Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Lebanon, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen—is a sprawling mix of chaos and poverty. He even rolled back Trump’s earlier cuts, reinstating protections for countries the prior administration had judged stable enough to lose TPS status.
This wasn’t about reacting to crises—it was about pushing a progressive wish list. When Biden’s grand immigration overhaul flopped in Congress in 2021, despite Democratic control of the government, he pivoted to TPS as a workaround. Just the News previously pointed out that his team saw it as a way to deliver on immigration goals without legislative meddling. Former Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, laid it bare: “It’s something that they can do without congressional approval,” he told Roll Call. “They could reauthorize those categories and expand on it. So that would be a way of administratively helping a large number of people.”
Menendez’s words expose Biden’s playbook: TPS became a weapon for executive overreach. His administration wielded it to sidestep Congress, dodge scrutiny, and lock in an open-borders legacy. What was once a short-term fix turned into a permanent fixture, with protections rubber-stamped for countries whose “temporary” woes had faded. The American people got stuck with the tab for a policy that rewarded illegal entry while spitting on legal immigration.
The House Judiciary Committee’s report lays out the damage Biden left behind. Over 1.4 million people—most added during his term—now sit under a program that’s drifted far from its roots. Venezuela and Haiti dominate the stats, but Biden’s scattershot approach roped in immigrants from every corner of the globe, legal status be damned. Now, with Trump at the helm, the border crisis isn’t just a lingering headache—it’s a full-on inheritance.
Biden’s TPS fiasco stands as a stark marker of his presidency: political games over principle, executive fiat over democracy, and amnesty over enforcement. The crisis he fueled wasn’t a fluke—it was the plan. Trump’s task? Undoing the mess before it becomes permanent.
The Federalist Wire will keep you updated on any updates from the U.S. House of Representatives on this issue.
