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Or, yeah, there's a wider impact there.
And then, I mean, also people like Mary, who we heard from earlier, you know, she's supporting her dad who has cancer back in Haiti.
with the income that she gets at Sinai Residences.
So a lot of that money ends up flowing back to Haiti, and that's a stabilizing thing, right?
Those remittances, I think in 2024, something like 16% of Haiti's GDP was remittances.
So there's a lot of economic impact there.
And, you know, I talked to Paul Nonfee about this.
He's the political director of the Family Action Network movement, which works a lot with the Haitian community in South Florida.
Yeah, great question.
I mean, I'm going to read you the line from DHS, if that's okay.
Yeah, so, quote, this decision restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that temporary protective status is actually temporary.
And then the spokesperson goes on to say the environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home.
So that's the line.
I mean, and considering the workforce disruptions we've seen from the immigration policy decisions by the Trump administration, I mean, I feel like it's clear that the priority is really to deliver on the promise of hawkish immigration policies, like getting...
people out, preventing people from coming in.
And that is what he's doing, or that's what the administration is doing.
And that is, you know, that's what he ran on.
And delivering on that promise may not be what's best for the aging care industry or the people who need that labor, residents of these facilities, and, you know, of course, the workers who are employed in the sector.
Oh, yeah.
No, I mean, I didn't meet anyone who's planning to move back to Haiti.