350,000 TPS Holders Lose Work Permits as Supreme Court Clears Trump to End Protections
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 26
350,000 TPS Holders Lose Work Permits as Supreme Court Clears Trump to End Protections
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 26
Summary
About 350,000 TPS recipients from Haiti and several other countries are set to lose their U.S. work permits on Monday, the first major fallout from the Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to end the program.
About 70% of TPS holders are in the labor force, with many concentrated in construction and health care, raising fears of acute worker shortages in industries already reliant on immigrant labor.
Salvadoran construction crews in the Washington area and Haitian caregivers in states including Florida, Massachusetts and New York illustrate how deeply TPS workers are embedded in rebuilding, maintenance and elder care jobs.
More than 1 million people have lived and worked in the United States under TPS, and another 190,000 Salvadorans could lose their status when their protection expires in September.