Local politicians, community advocates and labor unions gathered in Flatbush on Aug. 27 to call for a two-year extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants. The Trump administration announced plans in June to end TPS for Haitians effective Sept. 2, 2025, but a U.S. District Court in New York temporarily blocked that termination and extended protections through Feb. 2, 2026; the Department of Homeland Security plans to appeal. Haitian TPS was first granted after the 2010 earthquake for those who arrived before Jan. 12, 2010, and has been extended multiple times. Rally organizers emphasized community solidarity, cited about 500,000 Haitians in the U.S. (roughly 150,000 in New York City), and pledged coordination with nonprofits and resources to protect the Haitian community and oppose removal of TPS.
If we don't acknowledge you or we didn't put you on the paper, just know that this is bigger than politics and never recognition, is about taking care of our neighbors,
Today, Brooklyn is coming together to show that when you come for one of us, you come for all of us. I want to be very mindful about what this event is and what it isn't.
Removal of TPS is something that just should not and cannot happen, and we are here standing today to let the Haitian community of Brooklyn know that we will be working together to bring reso
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