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Brooklyn Haitian Restaurant Owner Says the End of TPS Is 'Worse than COVID' for Business
The plaintiffs are pursuing discovery on an equal-protection claim as ICE steps up enforcement and at least 5,000 Haitian immigrants in New York City lose work authorization.
- The Supreme Court allowed the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians to proceed on June 25, while legal challenges to the policy continue in lower courts.
- Haitians first received Temporary Protected Status in 2010 following a devastating earthquake, holding the designation for 15 years before the Trump administration terminated the program.
- Roughly 300,000 Haitians lost legal work status across the country. Brooklyn restaurant owner Wesly Simon said, "It's like I'm firing the whole family," after terminating longtime employees.
- Homeland Security plans to increase deportation flights to Haiti at a rate of 250 Haitians per week, while ankle monitors have become a common alternative to detention.
- Lead counsel Geoff Pipoly is pursuing an equal protection claim to challenge the termination, advising roughly 350,000 affected Haitians to consult immigration attorneys now rather than await court decisions.
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Inside the legal fight to save Haitian TPS, with lead counsel Geoff Pipoly
The Haitian Times sat down with Geoff Pipoly, lead counsel in Miot v. Trump, for an extended conversation about the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling, which allowed the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians to proceed while litigation continues. The equal protection claim — that the termination was motivated by racial animus — remains alive, and Pipoly’s team is now pursuing discovery to build the factual record the Cour…
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