The United States government on Friday terminated the Temporary Protected Status for Haitian residents.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the TPS designation for Haiti expires on Aug. 3, 2025, and the termination will be effective on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.
“This decision restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that Temporary Protective Status is actually temporary,” said a DHS spokesperson in a statement. “The environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home."
DHS said Haitian nationals may pursue lawful status through other immigration benefit requests, if eligible, but also encouraged individuals to arrange to go to Haiti through the U.S. Customs and Borders Protection Home app.
There are more than 125,000 Haitians live in New York, according to U.S. Census data.
"This move threatens the futures of Haitian New Yorkers who have lived, worked, raised families, and built their lives here. Haitians are our family members, neighbors, our healthcare workers, our business owners–people who are vital to the social and economic fabric of New York," said Murad Awawdeh, president and chief executive officer of the New York Immigration Coalition. "Forcibly removing them and sending them back to the instability and violence they once fled is brutal and inhumane. The Trump Administration has no justifiable reason to put Haitian New Yorkers on a fast track to deportation other than politics and cruelty."
The immigration advocacy group called on the New York's Congressional leaders to act and provide permanent protections for all TPS holders and "stand against Trump’s cruel policies.”
