Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a public policy group that seeks to reduce immigration, said that Temporary Protected Status was intended to provide relief to populations during acute emergencies.
In an e-mail message, he said that any “heart-tugging personal stories of separation” were “the unavoidable trade-off for having accepted America’s hospitality for so long.”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/nyregion/22liberians.html?_r=1&pagewanted=printBy Kirk Semple — New York Times