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Cancelling TPS, he said, will only place many holders in limbo without work authorization or immediate relief, making it harder for them to provide for themselves and their families.

"I have to provide for my wife and children and this is the only way I know," he said, adding that he preferred to toil underground rather than adding to the high crime rate by becoming a car-hijacker or robber, after spending many years trying to find legal work.

For others, their opposition is much more deeply seated, a sense that it seeks to dilute the most human of all human emotions, to provide for your children when you are gone.

Trades that are universally understood, at least in broad brush terms, and provide for our most essential needs can be very effective lobby groups, the argument goes.

Many miners spend months underground in unsafe conditions to provide for their families.