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U.S. Cancels Program For Recent Haitian Immigrants; They Must Leave By 2019

The Department of Homeland Security announced that Haitians living in the United States since a catastrophic 2010 earthquake will have to return to their home.
Parishioners pray together May 18 at the Notre Dame D'Haiti Catholic Church in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami. The prayer service touched on the church's concern about the outcome of the decision on extending the Temporary Protected Status for 50,000 Haitians living in the United States because. On Monday the Department of Homeland Security to let the protection expire.

Some 50,000 Haitians who've lived and worked in the United States since a catastrophic earthquake there in 2010 are reeling from news that their special protected status will be canceled.

They have 18 months until their Temporary Protected Status — or TPS — is terminated in the summer of 2019. A statement from The

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