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More than 10,000 Haitians in the Massachusetts workforce, many filling crucial jobs in long-term care, construction, and transportation, will lose their Temporary Protected Status. The Trump administration is expected to implement the court ruling any day. And unless they have other legal protections, those with Haitian or Syrian TPS will not be allowed to stay in the country.
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The Trump administration has attempted to strip TPS — which gives legal protection to immigrants from countries experiencing environmental disasters, armed conflict, and other extraordinary conditions — from 13 of 17 countries that had the status, most of which are tied up in court. The Supreme Court ruling opens the door to even more deportations.
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In all, roughly 45,000 TPS holders live in Massachusetts, the majority of them Haitians. About 1,500 of whom work in nursing care facilities, according to the state.
The rate of new immigrants coming to Massachusetts fell by more than half during the first six months of Trump’s second term, according to a new new report by MassINC Policy Center and Boston Indicators. The state has the second-highest rate of international in-migration in the country, which has been critical to offsetting the low birth rate.
Massachusetts needs at least 60,000 net new immigrants a year by 2030 to maintain the size of its working-age population, according to the report. But by the end of this year, net international migration to the state could fall to 29,000.
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And there will be other ripple effects, too: Longer wait lists for nursing homes and human services providers, which are already short staffed. Hospital patients ready to be discharged waiting weeks or months for space to open up at a care facility, causing emergency room patients to wait longer for a bed.
Many employers don’t know the status of their immigrant workers beyond the fact that they have valid work authorization cards. And some may have protections beyond TPS, such as pending asylum claims.
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