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Courts Clear Way for DHS to End TPS for Haitians and Other Nationals

The legal shift lets the Department of Homeland Security implement terminations, triggering enforcement steps that are already costing jobs and straining local services.

A Honduran woman poses for a portrait outside a Perdue Farms poultry plant in Salisbury, Maryland, where she worked for more than two decades before losing her job last year after her TPS expired.
James Fleurijean, administrative assistant at the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield, helps a Haitian immigrant on August 3 before his mandatory immigration check-in later in the week as Dorsainvil, right, reviews paperwork for another case.
Co-Founder and Executive Director of Haitian Community Help and Support Center Vilès Dorsainvil says many have felt humiliated by the ankle monitors authorities are now issuing. "These are things that should be put on criminals," he says.
Members of the Word of Life Center, a church and hub of the Haitian community, sing and pray August 2 during a service in Salisbury, Maryland.

Overview

  • Federal judges acknowledged a June Supreme Court decision that limited lower courts’ power and allowed DHS to formally end Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status, which DHS put into effect on July 27.
  • An estimated 330,000 to 350,000 Haitians who held TPS have lost work authorization, and employers and city governments have begun separating affected workers from payrolls.
  • ICE and DHS have started operational enforcement in some places, with agencies issuing call-in appointments, fitting ankle monitors and detaining people who miss appointments.
  • Local leaders and mayors are pressing Congress for a statutory fix while senators have proposed bills to extend TPS, but a Senate rescue faces uncertain prospects.
  • Advocates warn that returning many Haitians would pose serious humanitarian risks because of gang violence, displacement and State Department travel warnings, and legal challenges on narrower grounds continue in some district courts.