Thankfully, President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is ready to begin the arduous task of undoing the disastrous rollback of policies by President Joe Biden that led to a historic immigration crisis at the southern U.S. border.

According to Fox News, while Democrats have urged President Biden to extend a controversial immigration program that has been in place for several decades, Trump and his administration have vowed to axe it.

The program is called Temporary Protected Status, and it has been in place, to varying degrees, since the 1990s.

Fox News reported that the program "allows the government to designate countries unsafe for nationals to return to, granting nationals already in the U.S. work permits and protection from deportation if they are here illegally or if their legal status expires."

What's happening?

Many believe that the TPS program is ripe for exploitation, as it allows the president to designate countries "unsafe," giving those in America from the unsafe countries a work permit and protection from being deported.

Some of the countries on the TPS list currently include Venezuela, Haiti, Afghanistan and others.

The Trump administration, during its first term in the White House, began working to wind down the program, or at least the number of countries it included.

Unfortunately, that work was abruptly interrupted by a flurry of legal actions launched by liberal advocacy groups, tying the matter up in court for over a year.

Fox News noted:

TPS again became a major issue in 2024 as Republicans and conservatives drew attention to mass migration via humanitarian parole from Haiti. Migrants were coming in via the use of the CBP One app and a program that allowed up to 30,000 migrants from four countries a month into the U.S. They could then be eligible for TPS if they arrived before the country was re-designated.

During his presidential campaign, Trump vowed to take Haiti off of the TPS list to stop the flow of thousands of Haitian migrants from pouring into the United States.

Not temporary

Many conservatives against the TPS program argue that it's not truly a "temporary" program if it continuously gets extended.

There have been several attempts by GOP lawmakers to restrict the program.

Hopefully, now that Republicans will control both chambers of Congress and the White House, these types of indefinitely extended programs will be put to pasture.

Only time will tell.