In a statement to CBS News, DHS said it “does not discuss ongoing or future operations,” adding: “What we would say now is it’s closing time which means you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here… The good news is it’s not too late to get a $2,600 check and a free flight home.”
Conditions in Haiti still severe
During his first-term Administration, Trump targeted TPS, a program since 1990 that has allowed migrants from designated countries with unsafe conditions—such as armed conflict, natural disaster, epidemics, or other extraordinary conditions—to reside and work legally in the U.S.
In his second-term Administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to terminate TPS designations for several countries, including Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Yemen. In many announcements ending those protections, then-Secretary Kristi Noem emphasized that TPS was designed to be temporary, and she argued that the living conditions in many of the countries with TPS designation have improved. Any extension to the TPS designations for those countries, the department said, would be “contrary” to the “national interest.”