In more immigration news, a federal judge in New York heard arguments Wednesday that could determine the fate of some 500,000 Haitian recipients of temporary protected status whose deportation protections are at risk of expiring in August, after the Trump administration moved to prematurely cut off their TPS status. This is Aline Gue, executive director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees.

Aline Gue: “This is a huge disruption, not only to their lives, creating anxiety and harm, wreaking havoc in our communities at large, but it’s also unlawful, because this is precisely the reason why temporary protected status was created, right? For folks to not be returned back to situations that have a lot of political instability, violence, natural disasters. And that is exactly what we’re seeing in Haiti today.”