Summary
On December 18, 2025, Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and TakeRoot Justice released A Critical Hour for Haitian Immigration Justice: Community Testimony and Policy Solutions Amid Relentless Racist Attacks on TPS and Humanitarian Parole. The report was released at a virtual teach-in event. Our report exposes the Trump administration’s ruthless attempts to strip away legal status, rights and access to work authorization for Haitian refugees living in the United States.
Our new report reveals the catastrophic impact of Haitians losing Temporary Protective Status (“TPS”), a form of humanitarian relief granted to citizens of foreign countries due to armed conflict, environmental disasters and other extraordinary conditions that make their return unsafe. The report also tracks efforts to dismantle a number of programs designed to provide temporary status for Haitians, including the CBP One App, the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program, the CHNV program and now TPS, leaving people unable to work or care for their families. TPS for Haitians living in the U.S. is set to terminate on February 3, 2026.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with eight members of New York’s Haitian community, our report illuminates the resulting harms done to individuals, communities, labor sectors and the economy. We also counter the assertion that it is not in the national interest to permit Haitians to remain in the United States, uplifting the substantial economic contributions of Haitians and warnings from labor leaders and economists that stripping Haitians of work authorization poses risks to key industries and to the U.S. economy as a whole. Our research also demonstrates the inaccuracy of the Trump administration’s claims that conditions in Haiti no longer warrant TPS designation, making clear the level of instability and danger in the country.
The report calls for urgent policy solutions, including an immediate extension and redesignation of TPS for Haiti, lifting the pause on asylum applications, and creating a path to residency for all TPS recipients.
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Read the new report here.
See our previous report Humanitarian Parole Crisis: How Racist Policies and Practices Deny Haitian Refugees Work Authorization for earlier work on the humanitarian parole crisis.