One of the more dishonest elements of our immigration system is “Temporary Protected Status,” which we give to illegals who don’t qualify for asylum but whom we don’t want to deport because of civil strife or natural disasters back home. The idea is probably useful, but in practice no one who gets this status ever leaves. The most absurd example of such “temporary” protection is Liberian illegal aliens, some 10,000 of whom (no one knows the actual number) just this past week were granted another one-year extension of their status; sounds unremarkable, until you learn that they have been in this “temporary” status since 1991. They’ve been here so long that not only have they had kids (American citizens, naturally), but the kids are starting high school! Look, if we’re going to give illegal aliens amnesty, i.e., allow them to stay, we ought to just do it and not screw around with this kind of mickey mouse stuff.