Stop Trump from deporting 50,000 Haitians

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Stop Trump from deporting 50,000 Haitians

President Trump

URGENT: Tell President Trump to renew TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for Haitians by May 23rd to stop 50,000 working people from facing immediate deportation to a country still recovering from natural disasters.

My name is Gerdine Vessagne, and I am a housekeeper at the Fontainebleau Resort on Miami Beach. I am a proud union woman, and I love my job.

I was born in Haiti, a country that’s seen its fair share of devastation. But I’ve been living and working in the U.S. for eight and a half years because of something called “Temporary Protected Status,” or, TPS.

TPS has allowed me to provide for my five children, including two back home, and three born here. But this isn’t just about me.

Over 50,000 Haitian nationals working in the U.S. have this protected status. We are the engine of Florida’s hospitality industry, much of which greatly depends on our labor.

If Donald Trump does not extend TPS for Haitians by May 23rd, then 50,000 of us face an impossible choice--return to a country still recovering from national disaster or lose our jobs and be forced to live in the shadows as undocumented immigrants.

Please add your name to tell President Trump and his administration to extend the TPS for over 50,000 hardworking, taxpaying Haitian immigrants who have proudly served people in Florida and beyond for years.

Thank you.

Gerdine Vessagne, UNITE HERE Member
Housekeeper, Fontainebleau Resort
Miami Beach, FL

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To: President Trump
From: [Your Name]

We, the undersigned, call on President Trump and his administration to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 50,000 Haitian immigrants living and working in the U.S. set to expire this summer. Failure to renew TPS would not only break apart families and further devastate a country still recovering from natural disasters, but it would also negatively affect the hospitality industry in Florida and other areas in the U.S. which depend on the labor of many Haitian workers currently on TPS.