Haitian TPS

Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins condemned the Trump administration's decision to appeal a federal judge's ruling protecting Haitian immigrants nationwide from being deported.

For now, a federal judge's 11th-hour ruling blocks President Trump from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians — but he looks determined to assure their deportation back to gang-ravaged Haiti.

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians under Temporary Protected Status woke up relieved after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending the immigration status. Haitian TPS holders are still in limbo.

The Florida Immigrant Coalition hailed Monday night's decision to block the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrant as "a critical victory for families, workers, and communities across the country — especially here in Florida."

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington granted a request to pause the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds. The TPS designation for people from the Caribbean island country was scheduled to end on Tuesday.

The Trump administration wants to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitians back to Haiti — where a million and a half people are already refugees from gang violence. Legal experts spoke on WLRN’s South Florida Roundup about the resources and options for the community being affected by this decision.

Dozens of Haitian immigrants and activists, religious clergy, members of Congress and others speaking out across South Florida in hopes of persuading President Donald Trump and his administration to restore Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants.

Saying scores of her Haitian constituents are being threatened with deportation, Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica S. Wilson has written President Donald Trump and other top administration officials urging them to extend Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of Haitian nationals.

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The suit filed in Washington, D.C., alleges that President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Department Secretary Kristi Noem have ignored warnings not to travel to Haiti by State Department officials in seeking to terminate TPS.

The Family Action Network Movement and U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Miramar, said the Trump administration has confirmed they would comply with a federal judge's ruling to keep in place TPS for Haitians until February 3, 2026.

South Florida immigration attorney Vanessa Joseph says Haitian immigrants are worried and fearful they may be forced to leave the U.S. after the Trump administration announced last week it’s terminating Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for 500,000 Haitians in early September.