Senate Democrats introduce bill to designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status

Senate Democrats introduce bill to designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status

Senate Democrats introduced legislation Wednesday that would require the Department of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), an effort to lock in deportation protections for Haitian nationals regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case over the Trump administration’s attempts to end the program. The bill, introduced by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., would …