TPS for Haitians and Syrians Hangs in the Balance
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lairn on WNYC. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Amina Serna, a producer for the Brian Lair Show, filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:18.6 | Coming up on today's show, we're going to hear what recipients of the federal |
| 0:22.5 | food assistance program, SNAP, need to know as new work requirements are about to go into |
| 0:28.0 | effect. These changes were part of last summer's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Plus, |
| 0:34.8 | a USAID whistleblower has written a book about the Doge dismantling of the agency |
| 0:40.4 | and what it's meant for the countries receiving, or in some cases, that used to receive, |
| 0:46.5 | U.S. assistance. |
| 0:48.2 | And we'll wrap today's show with a conversation that we think many of you might identify with. |
| 0:54.0 | Our guest is a writer who says |
| 0:56.1 | she used to go to her dad for advice on lots of things, you know, life stuff. And now, for any |
| 1:02.9 | question that she has for him, like, how do I fix the leak under my sink? His answer is, |
| 1:09.0 | Ask Chat, GPT. If you have anyone like that in your life, we'll want to hear from you |
| 1:15.5 | about how that's affecting your relationships. But first, yesterday the Supreme Court indicated it will |
| 1:24.0 | back President Donald Trump's push to end temporary protection status for millions of people who received TPS status from countries enduring war and natural disasters. |
| 1:34.8 | That's according to an analysis from CNN and Reuters. |
| 1:38.9 | The two class action lawsuits before the justices involve more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,000 Syrians |
| 1:47.6 | whom the Trump administration has sought to deport from the United States. And one of the |
| 1:53.1 | central questions in those cases is whether the Department of Homeland Security sufficiently |
| 1:57.5 | considered conditions on the ground in those two countries before it moved ahead with terminating those designations. |
| 2:04.8 | The attorneys representing the TPS recipients said the Trump administration did not, |
| 2:10.1 | and is potentially sending back these people to dangerous conditions. |
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