A Haitian-American legislator on Thursday welcomed a federal judge’s ruling in Brooklyn, New York, in favor of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian immigrants. Last Tuesday, Judge Brian M Cogan of Federal District Court in Brooklyn blocked US President Donald Trump from ending TPS for more than 520,

A federal judge in Brooklyn has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end temporary protected status for Haitian migrants ahead of schedule, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security violated the law in its rush to strip deportation protections and work permits from over half a million people.

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration could not cut short the protection for migrants from Haiti, which has been under a state of emergency since March 2024.