Congress has the power to protect Haitian lives![link removed]

Protect Haitian Immigrants!Greetings,

In June 2025, the Trump administration announced its plans to terminate [link removed] Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, affecting more than 350,000 [link removed] Haitian immigrants living and working in the United States lawfully. This case falls under the administration’s mass deportation [link removed] plan which President Trump promised during his campaign a drastic and sweeping policy [link removed] aimed at removing the entire undocumented population of the U.S., estimated to be 11 million [link removed].

Haiti continues to endure a deepening humanitarian and human rights crisis. According to the United Nations, the country is facing one of the most complex crises [link removed] in its recent history. Deporting Haitians would be a death sentence since major swaths of territory are currently controlled by armed gangs, and millions of local Haitians are struggling to survive threats of violence, food insecurity, political instability, and ravaging natural disasters. Additionally, the United States Department of State [link removed] even discourages Americans from traveling to Haiti, placing it at a level 4 travel advisory. How can Americans in good conscience send Haitians back to a country that the State Department says not to travel to?

Earlier this year, a federal judge temporarily blocked [link removed] the measure to end TPS for Haitians that was set to expire this February. And yesterday, the House of Representatives voted [link removed] against the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate TPS for Haiti via a bipartisan agreement [link removed] that would extend protections for three years, allowing hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants to remain in the country without fear of deportation. The House’s vote is a common-sense action to help save hundreds of thousands of lives. Congress has the power to protect those lives.

TPS holders are lawfully present in the United States. Haitian immigrants have built business [link removed], families [link removed], and entire communities for many years and established deep roots across our nation. A decision to terminate protections is not only harmful and dangerous but is inconsistent [link removed] with prior U.S. policies and at odds with the purpose of TPS.

At the Forum [link removed], we urge all community members and leaders to continue to advocate [link removed] for policies that would protect Haitians and other vulnerable immigrants and refugees facing deportation threats to their dangerous homelands. And we encourage the United States Senate to do the right thing by following the House’s lead in voting to keep Haitians protected.

Stay committed and hopeful,

Oula

**Oula Alrifai**Assistant Vice President of Field and Constituencies
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