North Miami business owner Sabine Dulcio was stunned the week before Haitians on Temporary Protected Status lost their authorization to legally work in the United States. The event planner had a wedding to set up at the Coral Gables Country Club and half her staff failed to show up.
When she followed up, Dulcio said her employees told her they were afraid to step out of their homes because they didn’t want to get arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In Little Haiti, well-known Haitian-Bahamian chef and entrepreneur Wilkinson Sejour is not only feeling the effects of losing his TPS employees as of July 27, when the Trump administration ended work permits, but the false rumors of an ICE raid at one of his restaurants. “This administration is doing a really good job of implementing terror,” Sejour said.
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