South Florida ER resident confined to home after TPS expires
She graduated from FIU, finished medical school, and entered residency — then lost her ability to work.
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She graduated from FIU, finished medical school, and entered residency — then lost her ability to work.
CBS News Miami has followed the Ponthieux family's journey from Little Haiti to the halls of Congress as they advocated for Temporary Protected Status recipients.
The teenager was born in the United States, as was her brother. Her mother, who has lived in South Florida for nearly 20 years, had been residing in the U.S. under TPS.
Haitians are being advised that a pending asylum application doesn't automatically prevent detention or removal proceedings.
Claudia Rodriguez, who previously held Temporary Protected Status (TPS), described the conditions inside the facility as unsanitary, alleging that the room and toilets were rarely cleaned.
Consular General Yverick Delerme Cyril is encouraging Haitians to make sure they have proper identification on their person at all times.
Work permits tied to Haiti's TPS designation expired at midnight Tuesday morning. Immigration attorney Emmanuella Telfort says the community is now waiting for the final legal step.
The Archbishop of Miami is traveling to Washington D.C. in hopes of convincing a group of senators to extend TPS protections for Haitians.
At midnight, hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants could lose their TPS protections.
There are 158,000 thousand Haitians in Florida on TPS. Of those, 113,000 work in the medical field.
With thousands of TPS holders working in South Florida's healthcare system, the end of temporary protections could leave families and patients at risk, as caregivers face possible deportation within days.
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
The National TPS Alliance says it collected over 130,000 signatures calling on Congress to restore protections for Venezuelans living in the U.S. including in South Florida.
In June, judges issued 5,415 removal orders, a 17.6 percent increase compared to March's 4,605 removal orders, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonprofit that tracks immigration data.
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was first granted in 2010 after a catastrophic earthquake.
County officials, healthcare advocates and business leaders gathered Wednesday to highlight the potential ramifications of the program's expiration, which follows a previous two-week extension.
Haitians in South Florida have been encouraged to get legal affairs in order, and to speak with estate and family attorneys.
The expiration, scheduled for Friday night, threatens to strip Haitian recipients of their authorization to work in the United States.
Pastors in Florida's capital city are asking elected officials to reinstate Temporary Protected Status for Haitians after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week the federal government could end the program.
A Haitian nurse in North Miami says she fears being forced to return to a country she fled after a kidnapping.
The Supreme Court's decision has drawn sharp criticism from local officials and raised concerns about the future of families in the region.
Activists say the move could force families into hiding and criticized the return of individuals to a country facing significant instability.
Immigration attorneys are awaiting guidance following the court's decision, but many understand the current TPS designation for Haitians is set to end July 1.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration can move forward with its efforts to strip more than 356,000 Syrian and Haitian immigrants of temporary protections.
It's the latest setback for the Trump administration on the issue, which has sought to terminate the TPS designation for 13 countries as part of the president's crackdown on immigration.
