Ask Congress to Protect Haitians in the US

Roughly 350,000 individuals from Haiti have been residing and working lawfully in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Last year, the Secretary of Homeland Security initiated a process to terminate these protections, which would leave most Haitians ineligible to work lawfully and vulnerable to deportation back to Haiti.

Haiti is in the midst of a severe humanitarian crisis, a crisis so severe that the U.S. State Department warns Americans not to travel to Haiti with its highest category of warning. World Relief continues to work within Haiti to provide necessary humanitarian aid, but the country lacks the infrastructure to absorb the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have legally found safety in the U.S.

On June 25, the Supreme Court ruling in Mullin v. Dahlia Doe and Trump v. Miot allows the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to proceed with the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians living in the U.S., determining that the termination was within the purview of the executive branch. Congress as a co-equal branch of government has the power to act to extend protections for Haitians, and the House has already passed a bipartisan bill, H.R. 1689 to extend TPS for Haitians for three years. The Senate must now act.

Use this tool to ask your U.S. Senators to support this legislation to preserve Haitians’ temporary protected status