Haitians

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.

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.

A member of Haiti's transitional presidential council has announced that a majority of the panel has voted to fire the country's embattled Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as the country's political chaos deepens.

Officials announced the administration is cancelling Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitian immigrants in the U.S. — even though the U.N. says conditions inside Haiti remain horrific.

SeJoe, known as the first Haitian comedian to release a Haitian Creole special on Amazon Prime, is back with a new comedy special, following the debut of its recent trailer.

Lake Worth Beach has traditionally flown only two flags alongside the U.S. flag: the LGBTQIA+ pride and Haitian flags. That changed on July 1 when the commission quietly voted 4-1 against raising the Haitian flag, citing First Amendment concerns.

A short film about 1990s Haitian refugees in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay aims to engage younger Haitian Americans with their parents’ past trauma during an era of strict U.S. immigration policies reshaping Haitians place in American society.

The termination notices are being sent by email to about 532,000 people who came to the country under the humanitarian parole program created by the Biden administration. They arrived with financial sponsors and were given two-year permits to live and work in the U.S.

How the new travel ban rules immediately impact visitors from Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti is unclear. The policy, which officially takes effect Monday at 12:01 a.m., does not have an end date.

The Trump administration's decision will affect thousands of legal immigrants in South Florida who qualified for the 'humanitarian parole" program created by the administration of former President Joe Biden.