Temporary Protected Status for Haitians was officially terminated on July 27, putting thousands of Haitians in San Diego at risk of deportation.Temporary Protected Status is a federal program that allows foreign nationals to stay and work in the U.S. when conditions in their home country make it unsafe to return because of armed conflict or natural disaster.The Department of Homeland Security decided earlier this year that Haiti no longer met those conditions, despite a U.S. travel advisory warning against travel to Haiti “due to the risk of crime, kidnapping, terrorism, unrest, and limited health care.”Now, the over 330,000 Haitians who lost their protected status are expected to leave their homes in the U.S. and return to the same dangerous conditions they fled, or face deportation.Roggens Succeus, a Haitian asylum seeker who came to the U.S. in 2024 under humanitarian parole, said he knows Haitians who recently lost their protected status.Succeus works at a City Heights health clinic as an interpreter for Creole- and French-speaking immigrants and he volunteers with refugee students.“It’s a kind of suicide going back to Haiti right now,” said Succeus, “[but] living in the US without being able to work, trying to pay rent, to feed yourself or feed your family, it’s really chaotic.”Succeus said he applied for Temporary Protected Status in 2024 after his parole was revoked by the federal government, but never heard back. He also applied for an F-1 student visa and never got an answer.His asylum case allows him to remain in the U.S. for another five years, but Succeus worries about all of the recent changes to immigration policy.“Even though the case is pending, there is no sincere guarantee that I could not be removed,” he said.For Haitians who recently lost Temporary Protected Status, applying for asylum is nearly impossible, and they have no other recourse to remain in the country legally.Guerline Jozef, director of the San Diego-based nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance, fears an increase in ICE raids that will separate families in Haitian communities.Jozef estimates about 7,000 to 10,000 Haitians in San Diego just lost Temporary Protected Status, many of whom live in mixed-status families with U.S.-born children.Temporary Protected Status does not provide a direct path to residency or citizenship, so many Haitians have lived in the U.S., working and paying taxes for over 15 years without a change in status.The Haitian Bridge Alliance, which has provided humanitarian support and legal representation for 10 years, is now focused on helping families plan for childcare in the event of deportation.Jozef has heard from San Diego families firsthand about their fears of separation. She shared the story of a young girl with an autoimmune disease whose father was deported.“She’s afraid to go to the hospital,” Jozef said. “She’s afraid to go to school because she’s worried when she comes back home, her mother will not be there, and she will lose both of her parents to deportation.”Jozef said they have been preparing for the termination of Temporary Protected Status since Trump was reelected in 2024.The end of legal work authorization through Temporary Protected Status will also have direct impacts on relatives in Haiti who rely on income from the U.S. to survive.The U.S. Department of State estimated that private money transfers from the U.S. accounted for 22 percent of Haiti’s GDP in 2021.“So losing Temporary Protected Status, losing the work permit, will be one of the major destabilization forces in Haiti’s economy, which then in turn will push more people to leave,” Jozef said.Jozef is advocating for support of Senate Bill 4814, which would redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, and she urged people to call their senator to back the bill.
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