Kimberly Adams

And today we want to look at another aspect of the president's immigration agenda.

His moves to end the Temporary Protected Status or TPS program were

for several countries, including Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, and others.

TPS for Haitians in particular is set to expire on February 3rd, just a few days from now.

And my colleague Elizabeth Troval has been reporting on how this could impact Haitian immigrant communities in Florida.

She's here to tell us all about it.

Welcome to the show, Liz.

Thanks.

Great to be here.

So first of all, remind us, what exactly does temporary protected status mean?

And this is a program basically designed for people leaving a crisis, whether it be a war or a natural disaster that may need to flee to the United States.

But the idea being you're not coming here permanently.

You're just coming until whatever's going down in your country is resolved, right?

Why has this program for various countries been extended so many times?

And what's been the pushback to ending it?

So you have these Haitian workers that you went to speak to in Florida who are watching all this go down, trying to figure out what might be next for them.

But where did you go and who did you talk to?

I'm going to go and do something for us because it's really hard.

When you've got four kids, you can drive, and then you can work to give them food.

So because what these people are effectively facing is that they have jobs today where they're legally authorized to work and come February 3rd, all of a sudden, they lose that work authorization.