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The TPS Clock Haitian and Syrian Families Are Watching — And Why Venezuela May Be Next

Immigrant advocates rally against "DHS decision to terminate TPS for Haitians" during a rally on November 21, 2017 in New York, to protest the decision from the Department of Homeland Security to terminate Temporary Protected Status for over 50,000 people from Haiti, with affected TPS holders. / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Credit: Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

A tailor on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn's Little Haiti — a stretch of Kreyòl signage and Konpa music serving a Haitian community estimated at 185,000 in New York alone — has spent decades building his trade beside neighbors who arrived the same way he did. His name is Chilly Bonny. More than a thousand miles south in Miramar, Florida, Farah Larrieux has run a communications firm serving Haitian and Caribbean businesses since 2005. Both hold Temporary Protected Status. Both are now watching the same clock.

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