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Haitian TPS holders in South Florida brace for end of their legal status : NPR

Haitian TPS holders in South Florida brace for end of their legal status : NPR

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Farah Larrieux stands in her backyard in South Florida on July 27. Reshma Kirpalani for NPR/‎ hide caption toggle caption Reshma Kirpalani for NPR/‎ The sun had yet to touch the horizon when Farah Larrieux returned to her South Florida home at 6 a.m. Dark circles smudged the thin skin under her eyes as she pulled large trash and recycling bins to the curb. A headache banged on the left side of her skull. The Haitian immigrant had just finished her last overnight shift at a hotel on that Monday morning. She is among the 300,000 Haitians in the U.S. losing the legal status that has allowed them to live and work in the United States. Temporary protected status (TPS) was first granted to Haitians after Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, because conditions in that country were considered too dangerous for them to return. But last month, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end those protections. The ruling has left TPS holders bracing for an uncertain future. It has also rattled South Florida’s Haitian …

Haitian migrants get last-minute reprieve after SCOTUS ruling

Haitian migrants get last-minute reprieve after SCOTUS ruling

Published by Sam Flores

Haitian immigrants across the country received an eleventh-hour relief Friday as the government extended work authorizations for Haitians with temporary protected status. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that work permits for Haitian immigrants with the recently terminated legal status — granted to citizens of countries experiencing political violence, environmental disaster and other unsafe circumstances — will now expire on July 24 as a result of a court order. The update came on July 10, the original expiration date set for TPS holders’ work authorizations. “The extension is limited relief until the lower courts align with the U.S. Supreme Court’s favorable decision in Mullin v. Doe,” the notice read. The extension was one of seven USCIS announced Friday for TPS holders from a handful of countries, including Syria, South Sudan, Burma and Ethiopia. It comes on the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision in Mullin v. Doe, which allowed the Homeland Security Secretary’s termination of TPS for Syrian and Haitian recipients to stand. The ruling also held that the governing statute bars federal courts from reviewing …

Supreme Court allows Trump to end protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants

Supreme Court allows Trump to end protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants

Published by Sam Flores

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Haitian immigrants revived a church. Now the pews are empty.

Haitian immigrants revived a church. Now the pews are empty.

Published by Sam Flores

ELIZABETH, N.J. — On a Sunday in March, the Rev. Canon Andy Moore looked out at the empty back-left pews at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, which had once been filled with Haitian immigrants. “We pray in a very special way for our Haitians who aren’t here at this service, stricken by fear,” he said, before breaking the Communion wafers.   Only a few months earlier, his Haitian parishioners were reviving the aging St. Elizabeth’s, whose choir had gone dormant. Nearly a dozen Haitians led the church in worship on Christmas Eve, singing “Mèsi Bondye”—thanking God in Haitian Creole. St. Elizabeth’s had helped many of them find housing, learn English and secure jobs in the U.S.   That morning, though, Haitian parishioners had good reason to stay home: Word had spread that immigration enforcement agents were gathering outside a nearby Wendy’s — two blocks from St. Elizabeth’s.   Last November, the Trump administration announced it sought to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians, and fears of arrest among Haitian immigrants soared in New Jersey and across the …

US Court Convicts Four Men in Haitian President’s Assassination

US Court Convicts Four Men in Haitian President’s Assassination

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May 8 (Reuters) – Four South Florida men were convicted ⁠on ⁠Friday of plotting to kill Haitian President ⁠Jovenel Moise in 2021 by hiring mercenaries to assassinate him at his Port-au-Prince home, ​court records show. Prosecutors argued during the nine-week trial in a Miami federal court that the men assembled two dozen former Colombian ‌soldiers and supplied them with money, guns, ‌ammunition and tactical vests in a conspiracy to kill Moise. The 53-year-old president was shot dead in July 2021 ⁠at his private ⁠residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince, a killing that left a gaping political ​vacuum in the Caribbean nation and emboldened powerful gangs. Standing trial were Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, 53, a former FBI informant, Colombian national and U.S. permanent resident; Antonio Intriago, 62, a Venezuelan American owner of a security firm; James Solages, 40, a Haitian American handyman; and ​Walter Veintemilla, 57, an Ecuadorean American. They were convicted of multiple counts of conspiracy to kill and kidnap a ⁠person outside ⁠of the United States resulting ⁠in death, and ​of providing material support or …

Haitian migrants get last-minute reprieve after SCOTUS ruling

Haitian immigrants fear uncertain future in Trump’s America

Published by Sam Flores

The air in Springfield, Ohio carries an unsettling quality these days. For almost two years, the post-industrial community has grappled with the potential loss of a sizeable portion of its population and workforce. That tension only grows more palpable as the Trump administration targets the status of many of the 15,000 Haitian immigrants within the city limits and the hundreds of thousands more beyond it. In some ways, it’s become a new normal for Haitian Springfielders to anticipate the worst, and for their neighbors to fight against a government they see as threatening to rip their families apart. Viles Dorsainvil, the executive director of Haitian Community Support Center, calls it a lasting trauma that the immigrant population and their children will carry with them beyond this administration. “Folks are still trying to deal with the fact that they do not have any stability here,” Dorsainvil told Salon. His organization helps community members pay for housing, utilities and legal fees, access transportation and receive interpretation assistance while advocating for immigration reform. “They know that they are not …

A Stampede at a Haitian Mountaintop Fortress Kills at Least 25 People and Injures Dozens

A Stampede at a Haitian Mountaintop Fortress Kills at Least 25 People and Injures Dozens

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A stampede at a mountaintop fortress popular with tourists in northern Haiti has killed at least 25 people and injured dozens of others, authorities said, revising an earlier, higher number of fatalities. Municipal authorities in the city of Cap-Haïtien in a statement said that Saturday’s stampede in Milot “resulted in numerous cases of asphyxiation, trampling and loss of consciousness.” Authorities said dozens of people who attended traditional festivities at the historical site were taken to hospitals while many others were reported missing. “According to preliminary information … a situation of severe overcrowding, linked in particular to deficiencies in crowd management measures, triggered a stampede,” local authorities said in the statement. The Haitian National Police in a separate statement said it had opened an investigation to determine the exact cause of incident. The investigation led authorities to update the death toll to 25 fatalities. Autopsies were underway on Sunday. Police said 30 people remained hospitalized. The agency also asked the population to continue to cooperate with authorities and avoid spreading rumors. Haiti’s …

Central Haitian town descends into fire and bloodshed from gang warfare : NPR

Central Haitian town descends into fire and bloodshed from gang warfare : NPR

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A police officer stands guard in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption toggle caption Odelyn Joseph/AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Violence erupted in the central Haitian town of Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite early Sunday morning as a powerful gang warred with a vigilante group, regional officials confirmed to The Associated Press. The rampage from the gang Gran Grif left bloodied bodies scattered across the streets of the neighborhood of Jean-Denis, videos show. Gangs set fire to houses and left civilians reeling. It wasn’t immediately clear how many people were slain by the gang. The massacre is just the latest bloodshed in a nation that has been left reeling by spiraling gang warfare for five years following the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Around 2023, vigilante groups began to emerge in the Caribbean nation to strike back against gangs sucking the life from Haiti. The wave of brutal vigilante justice has made the conflict in Haiti even more complicated at the same time as international forces have sought to pacify the country. Vigilante …

From Haitian roots to viral fame: The rise of performer Ralph Beaubrun – arts24

From Haitian roots to viral fame: The rise of performer Ralph Beaubrun – arts24

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again arts24 © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 17/03/2026 – 15:24 11:48 min From the show Reading time 1 min Dancer, choreographer and singer Ralph Beaubrun has built a global following with his joyful dance classes and infectious energy online. Now the Franco-Haitian artist is stepping further into music with his new EP “ID.2”, blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms, shatta and pop while singing in Creole, French and English. By: Source link