Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
Q&A
NYC's response to TPS reduction for Haitian nationals
1:30:07
ยท
135 sec
Council Member Rita Joseph raises concerns about the reduction of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) duration from 18 to 12 months for Haitian nationals. Commissioner Manuel Castro discusses the city's response and concerns about the impact on immigrant communities.
- MOIA expresses great concern about the elimination of TPS programs
- The Haitian Response Initiative is a key program for supporting Haitian immigrants
- MOIA is monitoring federal policy changes and trying to determine next steps
- There are concerns about community members losing work authorization and legal status
Rita Joseph
1:30:07
Commissioner, TPS has been reduced from eighteen months to twelve months for Haitian nationals.
1:30:14
How are we addressing that and how are we providing support for the Haitian community and all those that will be impacted with them taking away TPS which is a protective status and if you're watching the news lately, Haiti is not the greatest place someone wants to go right now.
1:30:30
So, what are we doing to protect our most vulnerable communities?
1:30:33
As you may know, New York City itself has the highest rates of TPS recipients and 500,000 of them are Haitian.
1:30:44
So, I don't know, we gotta, I'd love to hear what the plan is.
Manuel Castro
1:30:49
Thank you to thank you council member.
1:30:52
As you know, I've expressed great concern about the elimination of these programs.
1:30:57
And to be clear, I, from the beginning, have expressed concern about the impacts of all these policy changes on our communities.
1:31:05
Anything that harms New Yorkers and our immigrant communities is something of concern to us.
1:31:12
And the revocation of TPS is certainly huge, huge worry.
1:31:18
We have been strong advocates for TPS, going back years now for to allow our immigrant communities have some some lens of stability, and this is just devastating.
1:31:32
We have a program specifically that works with Haitian immigrants.
1:31:38
As you know, the Haitian Response Initiative has been a key program for us.
1:31:46
Just like with every other policy change that's occurring at the federal level, we're monitoring.
1:31:51
We're trying to figure out exactly next steps.
1:31:56
Think do you want to weigh
UNKNOWN
1:31:57
in?
Manuel Castro
1:31:57
But it is it is concerning that our people that our community members would have would have lost work authorization and legal status.
Rita Joseph
1:32:07
Right.
1:32:07
That that means unemployed folks once their work permit expires, and it's not only TPS, right, and if we look at it it's also humanitarian parole.
1:32:16
These folks, their work permits will not be renewed, so here's again a workforce that'll be out of work, what do we do?