Maxwell Frost urges Senate to extend TPS for Haitians after Supreme Court ruling
Congressman Maxwell Frost blasted the Trump administration for seeking to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians in the United States, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court gave Trump the green light to do so.
In a victory for Trump’s anti-immigration hawks, the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling Thursday cleared the way for Trump’s Department of Homeland Security to end legal protections for immigrants from Syria and Haiti in the U.S. who have fled political violence and natural disaster in their home countries.
This court ruling leaves an estimated 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians in the U.S. at risk for deportation. Nearly half of Haitian TPS holders in the U.S. live in Florida.
“This will not just shake individuals, it will shake families, communities, and our nation,” Frost said at a press conference outside the Kingdom Church’s Haitian-Creole campus in Orlando’s Pine Hills neighborhood Friday. “The Trump administration is knowingly sending people back to places where th…