End of TPS leaves Haitians considering Canada, Holocaust survivors without longtime aides

Through tears, Sunny Isles Beach Holocaust survivor Anna Fischbein told The Associated Press how much she will miss the Haitian health aide who worked with her every week for the past 10 years.“She doesn’t deserve this,” Fischbein, 87, said. “She is so giving.”Fischbein said she lost more than someone who worked for her.“I lost, not a lady working for me, I lost a friend,” she said. “I don’t know if this is enough to describe why I did not sleep all night today.”Miriam Singer, the CEO of Jewish Community Services of South Florida, said the agency had to terminate Fischbein’s aide and 17 others when their work permits expired after the U.S.

Supreme Court cleared the path for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian nationals.“So here is another level of trauma for a group of individuals that have already experienced horrific trauma in their lives and horrific loss,” Singer said. “Here is another separation from the person that they trust to care for them.”Singer said two areas of work at Jewish Community Services included team members who were Haitian nationals with TPS, including home care services, “mostly serving Holocaust survivors and some other seniors.”Also stripped from Haitians who were in the U.S. on TPS: deportation protections.Attorney Lourna Rosembert-Joseph said immigration authorities can now enforce the fact that people no longer have protection.“So let’s say ICE has a raid and they are looking for individuals, can they deport anyone that they arrest?

Because technically you don’t have a status inside the United States as of now.”Leonie Hermantin, director of special projects at Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center, said conditions have not improved in Haiti.“Temporary is attached to the country condition,” Hermantin said. “But it is clear that in the past 10 years we have seen that, particularly in the case of Haiti, things have gotten worse — gang violence — making it unsafe to return.”She added, “To say that it is temporary, fine, if the situation ends. But in the case of Haiti, it had not ended.”Fearing their safety if deported to gang-riddled Haiti, some TPS Haiti advocates have told Local 10 News that families are considering a move to Canada.The Canada Border Services Agency told World News that, as of July 26, the most asylum claimants being proc…