Temporary Protected Status, Haiti and Trump administration
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The Trump administration wants to end temporary protected status for Haitians. How will Springfield, Columbus and Ohio as a whole be impacted?
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States.
TPS for Haitians had been set to expire Tuesday, with roughly 19,000 Haitian immigrants in Mass. set to lose their legal status.
At bottom, this case comes down to the Secretary’s failure to conform to the strictures of the TPS -[temporary protected status] statute," Judge Kim Wardlaw wrote for the court. "The Secretary attempted to exercise powers Congress simply did not provide under the statute.
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Rep. Laura Gillen says deporting Haitians "basically a death sentence" as TPS deadline looms
Temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitian nationals is set to expire next week because the Trump administration says Haiti is safe to return to.