Thousands Of Haitians Face Deportation After Losing Tps: ‘they Have Been Struggling For Years And Now They Have Nothing’
Franz Fabien is about to lose his home, his business of 20 years, and two sisters who are about to be left without immigration status. Amid uncertainty over raids and the end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian customers, relatives, and friends, almost nobody enters his shop in the heart of Little Haiti in Miami. He sells everything there — national team T-shirts, shoes, hair extensions — but his main sources of income were remittances to the island and prepaid cellphone top-ups. That business has all but disappeared: “I used to activate phones for people with TPS and now I can’t even remember the last time I did an activation.” With no income, Fabien is six months behind on his mortgage and on the verge of foreclosure. But what worries him most as the eldest brother and the only naturalized U.S. citizen in his family is that he has no resources to help his sisters, who on Monday lost their work permits and will in the coming hours lose the status that had protected them from deportation from the United States to an island in crisis.
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