Following Homeland Security’s decision to extend the program for only six months, advocates organized a Weekend of Action to educate community members
NEW YORK—On June 11, 2017, a coalition of elected officials, labor and community groups, faith leaders and representatives of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs held a press event calling for a full extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti at Evangelical Crusade of Fishers of Men, a church situated within New York City’s Haitian community in Flatbush, Brooklyn.