This is one thing. I'm David Rind, and you might have noticed ICE has been out of the headlines lately.

What's behind that? And is it going to last?

I've covered this for a long time, and it can change on a dime. And so I don't know that we're at a place to say that it'll be quiet for the remainder of the year.

Stick around.

When did you first come to the United States?

I've been lived here since I was four, so this year, make it exactly 20 years since I moved here.

This is Emma. She's a 24-year-old teacher living in Massachusetts.

Emma asked, we only use her first name because she fears retaliation from the Trump administration.

The reason for that fear is because she has temporary protected status, or TPS.

TPS protections allow foreigners to work and live in the United States if they would face extreme unrest back in their home country because of violence or natural disasters.

Emma is originally from Haiti.

Haitians like Emma were granted TPS after a devastating earthquake in 2010, and things have only

gotten worse since. Their president was assassinated in 2021. Armed gangs basically run the country now,

with food and health care are scarce. Well, as those protections were about to expire earlier this year, the Trump administration

moved to terminate them, but then a federal judge stepped in and temporarily blocked the move.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Haiti's TPS was never intended

to be a de facto amnesty program and that the earthquake took place over 15

years ago, quote, temporary means temporary, and the final word will not be from activist judges

legislating from the bench.

Now, I think it's worth stepping back a bit here.

President Trump actually tried to end these protections during his first term, but it also got caught up in the courts, and then the Biden administration extended them.

So it was never a fear that T.P. was within, it was just, okay, what am I going to do to eventually become a citizen?

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