The chairmen of two committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on senators to pass S.4814, which would extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians in the United States.
“We pray that, in its remaining weeks, the current Congress, along with the incoming 120th Congress, will devote more attention to the situation facing both Haitian families in the United States, especially those who have recently been stripped of their legal protections, and the human tragedies unfolding in Haiti itself,” Bishops Brendan Cahill and A. Elias Zaidan wrote in a November 10 letter.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration has the authority to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians whom an earlier Secretary of Homeland Security had permitted to live temporarily in the United States—in the Haitians’ case, since the 2010 earthquake there; in the Syrians’ case, since 2012, because of repression under then-President Bashar al-Assad.