{"id":226715,"date":"2026-07-28T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/226715\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:35:08","slug":"massachusetts-haitians-syrians-face-fallout-as-tps-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/226715\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Haitians, Syrians face fallout as TPS expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Haitians, Syrians face fallout as TPS expires<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/news-team\/6175b8c2-eadb-4b3e-a187-adab9bdd5c8c\" aria-label=\"Sharman Sacchetti profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6175b8c2-eadb-4b3e-a187-adab9bdd5c8c_1581875227.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Sharman Sacchetti\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>CAMBRIDGE, Mass. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Concerns and fears are ripping through the Massachusetts Haitian and Syrian communities as temporary protected status for people from both countries has expired.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Gov. Maura Healey said ending TPS will have a big impact on the state&#8217;s healthcare system and affect thousands of workers.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">NewsCenter 5 spoke with a nurse from Haiti who learned his TPS is expiring.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">He now cannot legally work here and said it would be dangerous for him to go back to Haiti.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;Taking care of our seniors, it&#8217;s something, like, I enjoy doing, but now we realize we don&#8217;t have the work permit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">He came to the United States after Haiti&#8217;s devastating earthquake in 2010 and got TPS in 2011.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">&#8220;We work, and we pay taxes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We live in the United States that so many call &#8216;the American dream.&#8217; It&#8217;s a fight to get the American dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">A Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end TPS for Haiti and Syria.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">It affects 45,000 Haitians in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">Immigration enforcement is expected to ramp up.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"11\">A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"12\">&#8220;Temporary Protected Status is exactly that &#8211; temporary. For too long, TPS has been allowed to function as a de facto amnesty program despite Congress never intending it to be permanent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"13\">Immigrant advocates said TPS holders are worried about how to pay the bills.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"14\">The United Way of Massachusetts Bay has activated its United Response Fund to help, saying in part:<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"15\">&#8220;Thousands of families across Massachusetts will face urgent needs related to housing, food, health care, childcare, and financial stability as work authorizations are revoked.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Haitians, Syrians face fallout as TPS expires CAMBRIDGE, Mass. \u2014 Concerns and fears are ripping through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[64647,38704,10911,6446,64644,10882,30746,15147,33707,6629,22998,1680,64648,5435,64646,10613,95,10741,10881,2968,10558,51,64645,16247,5436,38673,63085],"class_list":["post-226715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-american-dream","tag-care","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-food","tag-gov-maura-healey","tag-haiti","tag-haitian","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare-system","tag-housing","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-local-haitian-nurse-fear","tag-massachusetts","tag-massachusetts-haitians","tag-nurse","tag-syria","tag-syrian","tag-temporary-protected-status","tag-thousand","tag-tps","tag-united-states","tag-united-way-of-massachusetts-bay","tag-way","tag-wcvb","tag-work-permit","tag-worker"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116999757987794324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}