Sen. Chuck Schumer, NY AG Letitia James join Haitians in TPS extension push

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News on Jun 29, 2026

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NEW YORK — Sen. Chuck Schumer and Attorney General Letitia James Monday joined leaders of New York’s Haitian community in pushing for an extension of temporary protective status after the Supreme Court revoked the measure that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants from deportation.

Calling the top court’s ruling cruel and counterproductive, the Senate Democratic leader called on Congress to extend TPS and overturn President Trump’s efforts to boot Haitian immigrants out of the U.S. regardless of conditions in their troubled Caribbean homeland.

“Sending TPS recipients back into unsafe conditions in Haiti is not simply callous, it is intentionally cruel,” said Schumer, flanked by several Haitian-American elected officials in Brooklyn. “We have an obligation to stand beside our neighbors in their time of need, and Congress must act now in a bipartisan way to protect them.”

Schumer called Haitian immigrants “hard-working and family-oriented neighbors” and said deporting them would only hurt the American economy by removing a key source of labor in healthcare, transportation and other crucial industries.

“Haitians across this country play critical roles in our communities and have made invaluable contributions to the fabric of our nation and the vibrancy of our economy,” he said.

Senate Democrats introduced long-shot legislation last week that would require the Department of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for TPS, an effort to do an end-run around Trump’s attempts to end the program and potentially deport more than 300,000 Haitians immigrants.

The bill passed the House after a handful of Republicans, including some from districts with large Haitian communities, joined Democrats in passing it. But it is unlikely to pass the Republican-led Senate, where 60 votes would be required to overcome a conservative filibuster, and Trump could veto any legislation.

Aside from New York, the largest Haitian communities are in Boston, south and central Florida and Ohio.

The push comes after the Supreme Court ruled by a 6-3 margin to give Trump the green light to swiftly end TPS, which protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries in all.

The court’s conservative majority found that the law doesn’t allow courts to question the process that immigration authorities use to revoke the protections.

The United States first granted protections to Haitians in 2010 after a catastrophic earthquake and extended them multiple times amid ongoing gang violence that has displaced more than a million people.

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