The Great Delegalization | The New Yorker

More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.

In early 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti—but, even as Haitians in the U.S. had far less to return to, they received a new opportunity to stay. Reasoning that it was no longer safe to deport anyone back to Haiti, the Obama Administration allowed them to apply for Temporary Protected Status, which meant a U.S. work permit and a written assurance that they wouldn’t be deported. They might not be able to go home again, but they could make a new one. And tens of thousands of them did. Many found steady jobs: an estimated thirteen thousand Haitian T.P.S. holders currently work as nursing…

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