CBS News debate moderator Margaret Brennan called out Sen. J.D. Vance for a “fact check” suggesting that aliens on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) are here legally. However, experts say that the moderator's opinion is baseless.

Brennan appeared to interrupt speaking during Tuesday night's vice presidential debate. Rules previously set by CBS Moderators will not fact-check candidates, but Vance said TPS participants have legal status in the country and that those who participated through the CBP One app do as well. It seemed to suggest that he had some status. But immigration experts who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation said Brennan's “fact check” was wrong, saying those who obtain TPS are not automatically granted legal status. , noted that inadmissible aliens enter the United States every day via the CBP One app. (Related: CBS News leadership is being harassed by Democratic donors; they're also hosting the next debate)

“CBS host Margaret Brennan was wrong in her ‘fact check’ about Haitian immigrants,” Julie Kirchner, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), told DCNF, adding that Most have had no legal status for the past four years. “Haitians are protected from deportation if they enter the country illegally and then obtain Temporary Protected Status, but Temporary Protected Status does not give them legal status.”

Kirchner, who previously worked for both Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), said that immigrants who are actually in the United States legally are not protected from deportation in the first place. , explained that there is no need for him to be granted parole. Admission to the United States is not a legal form of entry.

“Finally, Haitians who cross the southern border illegally and apply for asylum do not and will not have legal status until their asylum claim is actually approved. “Percent of cases where it can take years to get an application approved in less than five days,” she said.

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Brennan's exchange with Vance comes amid a broader discussion of illegal immigration and the impact mass immigration has on small cities like Springfield, where the senator mentioned Springfield, Ohio. It happened later.

Springfield continues to be in the national news following allegations that Haitian immigrants there were seen slaughtering pet animals for food. These claims appear to have been unfounded, but the ensuing controversy is about what locals say is a legitimate issue: the mass influx of people into a town that doesn't have the infrastructure to withstand such a large influx of new residents. Migration was highlighted.

In a debate after Vance made comments about illegal immigration and issues favored by small cities, Brennan said, “To be clear to our viewers, Springfield, Ohio, has legal status, Temporary Protected Status.'' “We have a large number of Haitian immigrants.” Springfield, Ohio, is dealing with the effects of mass immigration.

Mr. Vance immediately responded regarding the process involved in the CBP One app. The CBP One app is an effort to help millions of foreign nationals apply for asylum each day.

“But Margaret, the rules were that you don't fact-check me. Since you're fact-checking me, I think it's important that I say what's actually going on,” the senator said. said. “There is an application called the CBP One app that allows undocumented immigrants who continue to operate under Kamala Harris’ open borders wand wave to apply for asylum or parole and be granted legal status.”

“That's not someone who applies for a green card and waits ten years-” he said before being interrupted by Brennan.

“Senator, thank you for explaining the legal process,” the CBS host said, eventually muting Vance's microphone as he tried to continue his point.

However, being granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) does not automatically confer legal status in the country, and those paroled via the CBP One app are unlikely to be allowed into the country in the first place. Immigration experts say.

Art Arthur, resident researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies, likened people entering the country through the CBP One app to being very similar to people landing at an international airport without a passport or visa.

“People who book appointments on the CBP One app have no right to be in the United States,” Arthur told DCNF. “They're essentially here illegally. They don't have visas, they don't have the right to enter, but they came to the United States on parole.”

“If you are admitted, you cannot be paroled into the United States. You can only be paroled into the United States if you are not admitted,” he continued.

CBP announced the creation of the CBP One app in October 2020 with the inauguration of the Biden-Harris administration. Expand your applications The app allows immigrants to make appointments to receive exemptions at ports of entry, and allows Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to apply for travel authorization and obtain parole at federal immigration offices. will be able to submit biometric data to

Arthur said the Biden-Harris administration is allowing 1,400 foreign nationals into the country each day through the CBP One app. More than 95% of people who use the app are eventually paroled and released into the United States, and then enter deportation proceedings.

“If you serve a citation and go into eviction proceedings, you're in the country illegally. That's what the government is saying — you'll be removed from the United States,” Arthur said. said. “Brennan was just wrong.”

Approximately 2.5% of Haiti's population has entered the United States since January 2023, Arthur said.

The mayor of Springfield gave a speech. letter In July, he wrote to Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Tim Scott of South Carolina, who had petitioned for federal aid. According to the administrator's letter, as many as 20,000 Haitians have settled in the town in the past four years alone, resulting in a housing crisis and that Springfield will be unable to meet its housing needs unless assistance is provided. He says he can't.

Matt O'Brien, director of research at the Immigration Reform Law Institute, said there are a large number of Haitians in Springfield, but it's unclear how many are on TPS or who are coming to the U.S. through other means. It is not entirely clear whether he entered the country or not.

“Whether the majority of Springfield's recent Haitian population were given TPS, granted parole, or were exempted from entry into the United States in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, they immigrated years later. It is unclear whether he was just given a notice to appear in court now,'' O'Brien told DCNF.

“TPS is a testament to everything wrong with our immigration system,” he added. “If you enter the U.S. illegally but get TPS, you get work authorization and can travel outside the U.S. and return to the U.S. So if you get TPS, you are obviously a legal person. But if the president revokes the TPS designation that gave you TPS, you immediately become an illegal alien.”

CBS News did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DCNF.

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