To Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullah

Submitted by Kepha Hor (United States), Dec 21, 2014 at 21:01

A temporary protected status might be a good idea for all countries with numbers of refugees and asylum-seekers. But I'd also keep the door open to permanent residence should, after the five year period, the refugee's home country still be some kind of humanitarian or political horror story. We have something like that in the States, and I don't object to it (even if I think we ought to enforce the immigration laws we have before we utterly revamp them). A lot of people who once thought they'd hop on the first plane home once a conflict or tyranny passed have ended their days as elderly Americans or US permanent residents.

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