【天网美西时间2026年7月25日讯】（天网义工综合报道）
2026年7月，美国密苏里州共和党参议员 Eric Schmitt 通过国家档案馆特殊访问权限，获得一份拜登政府2025年1月（卸任前最后几天）的白宫内部备忘录。该文件显示，拜登团队曾详细讨论扩大“临时保护身份”（Temporary Protected Status，简称TPS），覆盖超过310万非公民，明确目的是为了在川普上任前为这些人提供保护，并预期通过诉讼长期阻碍下一届政府的驱逐计划。
备忘录列出的潜在受益人群主要包括：
• 危地马拉约150万人
• 厄瓜多尔约60万人
• 尼加拉瓜约46.4万人
• 委内瑞拉约45.5万人
• 以及乌克兰、苏丹、阿富汗等较小群体
备忘录承认，此前川普第一任期试图终止部分TPS时，曾被法院阻止，并指出倡导团体已准备好再次提起诉讼。文件还建议在任期最后几周内新增约210万名TPS受益人，尽管承认申请处理通常需要六个月。
Schmitt 参议员公开批评称，这是拜登团队试图将TPS变成“310万人的驱逐护盾”，并故意给下一届政府制造多年诉讼障碍。他指出，这直接违背了2024年大选中选民对结束相关政策的明确选择。
实际执行情况显示，备忘录提出的大规模新增TPS并未完全落地。备忘录发出约一周后，拜登政府延长了接近100万人的现有TPS保护。部分针对危地马拉和厄瓜多尔等国的新增计划最终未能实施。
TPS原本是1990年设立的临时人道保护机制，旨在为因战乱、自然灾害等原因无法安全返回原籍国的人提供临时居留和工作许可。批评者长期指出，该机制在实践中被反复延长，逐渐演变为事实上的长期身份保护工具。
目前，川普政府已在多个国家的TPS终止问题上推进行动，部分决定仍面临诉讼。Schmitt 公开的这份备忘录再次引发关于行政权力交接期间政策延续性与尊重选举结果的讨论。
以下为英文版：
Biden Final-Days Memo Revealed: Planned Expansion of TPS to Over 3.1 Million Noncitizens to Obstruct Trump’s Deportations
【Tianwang West Coast Time, July 25, 2026】(Compiled by Tianwang volunteers)
In July 2026, U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) obtained through special access from the National Archives an internal White House memorandum from the final days of the Biden administration in January 2025. The document shows that the Biden team extensively discussed expanding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to cover more than 3.1 million noncitizens. The explicit purpose was to provide protection for these individuals before Trump took office and to create prolonged legal obstacles that would hinder the incoming administration’s deportation plans.
The memorandum listed the main potential beneficiary groups as follows:
- Approximately 1.5 million from Guatemala
- Approximately 600,000 from Ecuador
- Approximately 464,000 from Nicaragua
- Approximately 455,000 from Venezuela
- And smaller groups from Ukraine, Sudan, Afghanistan, and other countries
The memo acknowledged that during Trump’s first term, attempts to terminate certain TPS designations had been blocked by courts, and noted that advocacy groups were prepared to litigate again. It further recommended creating roughly 2.1 million new TPS beneficiaries in the final weeks of the administration, even while admitting that applications typically take six months to process.
Senator Schmitt publicly criticized the plan, stating that the Biden team sought to turn TPS into a “3.1-million-person deportation shield” and deliberately create years of litigation obstacles for the next administration. He pointed out that this directly contradicted the clear choice made by voters in the 2024 election to end related policies.
In practice, the large-scale addition of new TPS beneficiaries proposed in the memo was not fully implemented. Approximately one week after the memo was issued, the Biden administration extended existing TPS protections for nearly one million people. Some of the proposed new designations for countries such as Guatemala and Ecuador were ultimately not carried out.
TPS was originally established in 1990 as a temporary humanitarian protection mechanism intended to allow individuals who cannot safely return to their home countries due to war, natural disasters, or similar conditions to remain and work in the United States temporarily. Critics have long argued that the program has been repeatedly extended in practice and has evolved into a de facto long-term status protection tool.
The Trump administration is currently advancing the termination of TPS designations for multiple countries, with some decisions still facing litigation. The memorandum released by Senator Schmitt has once again sparked discussion about policy continuity during the transfer of executive power and respect for election results.
