CBS News: Protected status ends for thousands of Haitians in Massachusetts
Carline Desire is bracing for the worst. The executive director of the Association of Haitian Women in Boston is no longer focused on educating Haitian immigrants but on their survival as Temporary Protected Status or TPS officially expired for roughly 300,000 Haitians in the United States.
"It's like, oh my God, this is going to be a nightmare," Desire said. "Those who had food stamps, they don't have it anymore. And it's the same thing for health insurance."
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Chris White, the president and CEO of Road to Responsibility, a nonprofit which serves over a thousand people with intellectual disabilities, told WBZ he was forced to let go of 19 workers who lost their TPS status.
"We had people coming in the office crying or calling up being very upset and not knowing what to do, where to go," White said.