Haiti

Senate Bill 4814, if passed, would extend protections for Haitian nationals who face a forced return amid worsening gang violence, political turbulence, and economic destruction in Haiti. The legislation is stalled in the U.S. Senate.

Nonprofit and business leaders in Sarasota discussed the struggle of making a living without protected status. One who works with individuals and families said some are "basically barricaded in their homes."

The Temporary Protected Status of Haitian immigrants expired Monday. It is also the end of their employment authorization. Healthcare in Florida is expected to feel the hit.

Rights organizations, and civic leaders inside Haiti, warn the Trump administration's plans for Haitian TPS deportations risk violating an international law principle that prohibits forcing refugees back to a place where they're likely to be harmed if not killed.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the work permit extension on Friday, the same day it was supposed to expire for 350,000 Haitian TPS holders nationwide, including more than nationwide was set to expire on Friday.

The court ruling found the Trump administration could end TPS for both Haitian and Syrian nationals.

Experts said the TPS healthcare workforce exodus will be felt most acutely in New York, Massachusetts and Florida. Florida, with its high populations of older people and immigrants, will be particularly hard hit.

Haitian families, who for years have lived under the uncertainty of their TPS renewal, now face a new and more immediate uncertainty: What losing TPS could mean for their ability to work, remain with their families and plan for the future.

Thousands of Haitians living in Florida under humanitarian protections could be deported because of a Thursday ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Four South Florida men have been convicted in the 2021 assassination plot targeting Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. But there are lingering questions over what really happened in the months leading up to the killing.

The mass deportations under the Trump administration have been heavily chronicled, and Florida is among the states with the most immigration arrests and removals.

Just days after the court heard arguments for restoring Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz urged justices to grant the extension.