PROF. LARRISON: 'TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS' NEEDS REAL FORTIFICATION

BALTIMORE, Md., June 16 -- The University of Baltimore issued the following news release:

'These protections are vague and subjective'



Writing in Maryland Matters, Dr. Jennica Larrison, executive director of The University of Baltimore's School of Public and International Affairs and associate professor in its College of Public Affairs, says the nation's immigration laws-specifically a provision called temporary protected status (TPS)-are in need of reform. Two current Supreme Court cases, she says, reveal the vulnerability of TPS.



Dr. Larrison and her co-author, Ben Coleman, a UBalt graduate student and former caseworker and refugee advocate at the International Rescue Committee, write that the Trump administration has moved to canc...