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working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at the, D.C. has given many Haitian immigrants in the U.S. a temporary lifeline.

Late Monday, U.S. District Judge Honorias blocked the Department of Homeland Security

from ending temporary protected status for Haitian immigrants living in the country, at least for now.

Congress created the TPS program more than 25 years ago. The federal government applies it to

countries with unsafe conditions like civil war or natural disaster, including Venezuela, Haiti,

El Salvador, and Ukraine. More than a million immigrants from those places are in the U.S.

under the program, allowing them to reside and work here legally. But a majority of them could soon

lose that protection as the Trump administration moves to terminate their TPS coverage.

In issuing her decision, on Monday, Judge Reyes said DHS Secretary Christy Noem didn't have the authority

to end the program for Haitian immigrants and that the department's reasonings were flawed

and ignored facts. She also said it seemed, quote, substantially likely, as plaintiffs in the case

claimed, that Noam's decision to terminate the program was, quote, preordained and because of hostility to non-white immigrants.

The ruling gives Haitians with TPS some time to breathe easy, but the Trump administration indicated it will appeal this case to the Supreme Court.

330,000 Haitians live in the U.S. under TPS, and 150,000 more have applied to the program.

What does it mean for them to lose temporary protected status, some of them after 16 years?

What happens to the towns and cities with the large thriving Haitian populations?

I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast. We'll talk about those questions and more with our guests and with you right after this short break.

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or visit Wise.com. T's and C's apply. Let's start the conversation with our first guest. Joining us from

Springfield, Ohio is Amanda Becker. She's Washington correspondent for the 19th. That's a nonprofit newsroom. Amanda,

welcome back to 1A. So great to be here, Jen. So as we said, Amanda, the plan to NTPS for Haitian

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