GOP Rep Demands Open-Ended Deportation Shield For 350,000 Haitians

Republican New York Rep. Mike Lawler called on the Trump administration Thursday to prevent the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian healthcare workers after the Supreme Court cleared the way for ending TPS.

Lawler stressed in an X post that the migrant workers should retain their protected status from deportation due to humanitarian issues in their native Haiti and their community’s contribution to the healthcare system. The GOP lawmaker’s comments followed the Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling that federal courts cannot review the executive branch’s decision to end TPS.

“While I have never disputed the ability of the President to end , I strongly disagree with ending Haitian TPS at this time,” the congressman wrote in his Thursday post. “I’m asking the administration to allow for an orderly process by which Haitian TPS holders can maintain their work authorization while their 🛂Immigration cases are adjudicated over the next six months, if the revocation of TPS moves forward.”

The New York Republican added that the “situation on the ground” in the Caribbean country is a “humanitarian and political disaster and continues to warrant an extension” of the deportation shield.

“The State Department has a level 4 travel advisory telling all Americans to evacuate and not travel there precisely because the gangs are in charge of the country, engaged in gun and drug trafficking, and kidnapping innocent Haitians,” his post continued. “We want to root it out and allow for a stable government to be establish with a free a fair election, creating the conditions for a safe return for Haitians.”