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Following the Supreme Court’s decision allowing the Trump administration to move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, residents of Brooklyn’s Little Haiti say returning to Haiti is not a viable option amid escalating gang violence and political instability. Community members and healthcare leaders warn that ending TPS would harm both Haitian families and the U.S. workforce.<\/p>\n
Little Haiti in Brooklyn is a microcosm of the established\u00a0Haitian community of 185,000 in New York<\/a>, where the sounds of Krey\u00f2l and Konpa can be heard down the Nostrand Avenue corridor, where Haitians shop, work and play every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n The day after\u00a0the deafening SCOTUS decision<\/a>\u00a0that determined the president has broad power to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) affecting 330,000 Haitians in the United States, community members in Little Haiti expressed their frustration over the ruling and its potential impact.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a bigger problem for this country because a lot of immigrants are workers,\u201d said Augustine Jean, a cab driver from Haiti who said that ending TPS would impair the American economy and workforce.\u00a0<\/p>\n Haitians in the U.S. were first granted TPS by the Obama administration on January 15, 2010, following a devastating earthquake in Haiti just three days earlier. Since then, Haitian TPS has been redesignated and extended multiple times because of ongoing cataclysmic events in Haiti, ranging from climate disasters like\u00a0hurricanes<\/a>\u00a0and floods to political unrest, which included the assassination of President Jovenel Mo\u00efse in 2021, and gangs soon taking control of the capital city of Port-au-Prince.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s worse now \u2014 we went from earthquakes to gangs kicking people out of their country,\u201d said Rommel A. Peltro, a Haitian immigrant who\u2019s lived in the U.S. for 30 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n Peltro ridiculed\u00a0comments from federal government representatives<\/a>\u00a0who emphasized the \u201ctemporary\u201d component of TPS, citing that conditions in Haiti have not made it safe for people to return.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTPS was temporary in the first place and we know that \u2014 but that was if you had taken the money and invested [it] in what was supposed to be done,\u201d Peltro said, referring to earthquake relief funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n If TPS is revoked, thousands of status holders across the country will be at serious risk of deportation, and\u00a0over 330,000 Haitians<\/a>\u00a0will become undocumented, and therefore, unable to legally work.<\/p>\n In their outcry over the decision, TPS advocates have highlighted the working contributions Haitians have made in the U.S., thousands of them occupying the healthcare industry. An estimated\u00a013,000 Haitian nursing assistants<\/a>\u00a0on TPS serve 65,000 patients daily.<\/p>\n \u201cThey add a good amount of sustainability to this economy, and some of them work two to three jobs, especially in the healthcare system,\u201d said\u00a0Dr. Marie Paul, founder of the Haitian Nurses Network<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Paul, a nurse practitioner, said many of the network\u2019s members and her students are TPS holders. While she feels for Haitian TPS holders in the healthcare community, she acknowledged that the ruling\u2019s impact will extend beyond Little Haiti.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe have home health aides who go to the home and provide care to the elderly; we have the nurses who hold degrees and work in the hospitals; we have teachers who teach at universities,\u201d Paul said. \u201cThis is going to be a ripple effect.\u201d An estimated 8,000 Haitian caregivers serve 12,000 children and aging parents.<\/p>\n Advocates<\/a>\u00a0have noted how the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling could set a precedent for future TPS decisions, as the law limits lower courts\u2019 ability to review the federal government\u2019s TPS decisions. Currently, there are lawsuits challenging TPS termination for several other designated countries, including El Salvador and Sudan, whose protections expire in September.<\/p>\n TPS work permits for Haitians remain valid until this Wednesday, July 1, as the fear of deportations looms over Little Haiti.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve picked people off the streets like stray dogs \u2014 it may happen,\u201d said Paul, harkening back to several instances of\u00a0people being stopped and arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n While frustrated about the decision, Chilly Bonny, a tailor in Little Haiti, said he\u2019s not scared about any decisions coming from the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMost people from Haiti come here to do good jobs, working in hospitals, trying to make a living.\u201d said Bonny, who\u2019s lived in New York since 1980. \u201cPeople cannot decide for people \u2013 only God could do that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n This story was originially published by Documented<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n Overview: Following the Supreme Court’s decision allowing the Trump administration to move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, residents of Brooklyn’s Little Haiti say returning to Haiti is not a viable option amid escalating gang violence and political instability. 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