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Bill Keating: “These [TPS beneficiaries] are adults and they have work…”

Featuring: Bill Keating, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 9th Congressional District

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'Obvious Contradiction': Keating Grills Trump Official Over Haiti TPS Cancelling Amid Travel Warning

Published | Video Starts at 01:50

If the crime is so severe and we have a colonel who's, you know, leading an effort at suppression of those gangs, then with 350,000 Haitians who are on TPS temporary protective status here, and These [TPS beneficiaries] are adults and they have work permits and they're in positions in my state and others of critical need. long term care, hospitals, hospitalities, agriculture. I mean, these are people that are here. So why, what's the purpose? There's a contradiction obviously in the staff. It's not safe. (01:50–02:00)

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Asserts that TPS beneficiaries are adults with work permits in critical positions in the U.S.

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