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\u201cGood morning, good morning, good morning. How are you?\u201d This is Harlaine Dominique. She\u2019s a travel nurse and mother to 16-month-old J.J. \u201cI know this is your worst part. It\u2019s all clean.\u201d During the Covid-19 pandemic, Harlaine worked on the front line treating patients. Tens of thousands of Haitians like her work in health care. \u201cIt hurts deeply to know that just six years ago, I was a hero. Now I am considered a burden to this country.\u201d Harlaine has temporary protected status, or TPS. It allows her to live and work legally in the U.S. Now, she and more than 300,000 Haitians could face deportation if the Supreme Court allows the program to end. The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have criticized TPS for allowing migrants to stay in the country for years. \u201cTPS is a program that was always meant to be temporary.\u201d \u201cIt was temporary. It\u2019s right in the name.\u201d \u201cIt was meant to be temporary.\u201d Harlaine is J.J.\u2019s primary caregiver, though his father, an American citizen, is fighting for custody of him. Without TPS, Harlaine could be deported and separated from her son. \u201cI can only imagine what that would do to my son. For him to lose his mom \u2014 he\u2019s my everything. He depends on me. He needs me.\u201d \u201cI was probably 11. I was so skinny. I want to be skinny again.\u201d Harlaine came to the U.S. in 1995, when she was 7 years old, and overstayed her visa. In 2010, she and her mother, Roz, were granted deportation protection after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, killing over 200,000 people. Since then, Harlaine has earned her degree, become a travel nurse and a mother. Her family\u2019s status had been renewed several times due to the ongoing political instability and gang violence in Haiti. But TPS offers no pathway to permanent residency or citizenship. \u201cTPS has allowed me to live the American dream that we all pray for \u2014 knowing that can all be stripped away from me keeps me up at night.\u201d Harlaine\u2019s mother, Roz, needs a kidney transplant. This year, Roz lost her access to Medicare after the Trump administration restricted access for TPS holders. With less than two months before the Supreme Court decides the fate of TPS holders, it\u2019s unclear if their family will be able to stay together. \u201cWe\u2019ve built a life here. We have our family. We\u2019ve helped build this economy, this country. Stripping us of it is inhumane.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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