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Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. Today we're bringing you the best from newsrooms around Washington. First, two Haitian immigrants in Spokane share their stories.

Temporary protected status or TPS is a humanitarian designation for

immigrants coming to the U.S. because of danger or disaster in their home country.

Last year, former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Christine Nome decided Haiti no longer met the threshold for that status.

TPS for Haitians was set to expire at the beginning of February, but a judge in D.C. paused that order the night before Haitians would have

lost the protections. Spokane Public Radio spoke with two Haitians about why they came to the U.S.

and how they're trying to move forward despite

the controversy around their status. Wijin Just is studying at Spokane Community College in the

hopes of becoming an immigration lawyer. Katia Jasmine is the executive director of Creole Resources.

When Jasmine started the nonprofit in 2023 to help Creole immigrants learn English and

find jobs, she had already lived in Spokane for a decade. But the number of people who

turned out for the group's first event still surprised her. 70 plus people shows up. I was like,

I didn't know we have that many Haitian here. And then, yeah, so,

and then more people move here and then bring their family over. And then there was like the

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