TPS

As part of its crackdown on legal and illegal immigration, the Trump administration terminated TPS for about 1 million people from more than a dozen countries, including 350,000 Haitians who have been living and working legally in the U.S. since 2010.

Temporary protected status was given to Haitians after the 2010 quake because Haiti was deemed too dangerous for a safe return. In June, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end TPS.

Rights organizations and civic leaders inside Haiti, warn the Trump administration's plans for Haitian TPS deportations risk violating an international law principle that prohibits forcing refugees back to a place where they're likely to be harmed if not killed.

A month after two devastating earthquakes decimated Northern Venezuela, Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status holders and the National TPS Alliance demanded the reinstatement of Venezuelan TPS by the Trump administration.

A Supreme Court ruling stripped Haitian migrants of their temporary legal status. Those with U.S.-born children face an agonizing choice if deported: Should they take them to a still-dangerous Haiti?

In attendance were entrepreneur Te Mayonna Brown; cultural arts leader Marshall L. Davis; Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert; state Sen. Shevrin Jones; attorney and late Congresswoman Carrie Meek’s grandson Kendrick Meek Jr.; former county Commissioner Jean Monestime; physician Rudy Moise; and attorney Roderick Vereen.

The district is currently 100 drivers short, which impacts how many transportation routes are available to students and timeliness for pick up and drop off.

“If roughly one in five Haitian TPS holders works in healthcare occupations, as national workforce analyses indicate, as many as 35,000 healthcare workers in Florida could be affected by recent policy changes,” a July 7 letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin from FHCA Chief Executive Officer J. Emmett Reed notes.

A Florida hospitality organization is asking the federal government for leeway for Haitian and Syrian workers in the industry after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively ended their legal status to remain in the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians could create a caregiving crisis, lawmakers from both political parties said.

Advocates are urging Floridians to call on their senators to support Bill S. 4814, which would reinstate the residency status for Haitians as well as permanent paths for U.S. citizenship.