Immigration advocates and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to re-designate Temporary Protected Status for Haiti.
The re-designation and an extension would open up the immigration protection to tens of thousands of Haitians who arrived in the United States after July 29, 2021, when the last TPS designation was given following the assassination of the country’s president, Jovenel Moise, two weeks earlier. It would also extend to those not covered by recent litigation over a Trump-era decision to terminate the program for Haiti and five other countries.
Last month, the administration announced that it would extend TPS protections for nationals of Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Sudan and Nepal who had been temporarily living and working in the U.S. when the designation was challenged in a 2018 federal lawsuit, Ramos v. Mayorkas, DHS filed a federal notice announcing that the benefit would be extended, shielding those eligible from deportation until at least June 30, 2024.
