Mike DeWine’s recent defense of Haitian Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders represents a deep failure inside the Republican Party. His views are reminiscent of the outdated, pre-Trump immigration instincts that ran rampant in the old GOP. Congress created the program in the Immigration Act of 1990 to provide short-term relief when a country faced extraordinary and temporary conditions that made safe return impossible. Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt has blocked attempts to extend Haitian TPS and to convert TPS holders into green-card recipients under a mass-amnesty bill. Right now our immigration policies rest with the executive branch because Congress has failed to codify any of Trump’s executive orders.