{"id":349211,"date":"2026-07-22T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349211\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:13:09","slug":"many-haitians-in-south-florida-face-difficult-decisions-with-loss-of-tps-looming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349211\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Haitians in South Florida face difficult decisions with loss of TPS looming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 22, 2026 at 6:55 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Haitians in South Florida and across the U.S. are bracing for difficult decisions as hundreds of thousands are set to lose Temporary Protected Status on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thamara Labrousse at Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center in North Miami says many TPS Haitians are facing a tough choice, one even harder for those with children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf you are a TPS holder with an American born child, you may have to consider if you are forced to go back to Haiti, not taking your child with you because it\u2019s not safe and a lot of parents are struggling with that,\u201d Labrousse said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Labrousse says if Haitians are forced to go back, there may not be a place for them to go to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t believe that there are enough even basic services in place to be able to accommodate that many people,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A young Haitian father living in South Florida told Local 10 News\u2019 Christian De La Rosa his family home in Haiti was destroyed and overtaken by gangs in his neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He said he plans to keep cleaning restaurants for work in Miami until he is let go and stressed he\u2019s not going back to Haiti, even if he loses his legal status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe would rather hide instead of going to face what possibly can happen to him in Haiti,\u201d said Labrousse. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Christian De La Rosa\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/59a14089-8518-45b5-b7.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Christian De La Rosa<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Christian De La Rosa joined Local 10 News in April 2017 after spending time as a reporter and anchor in Atlanta, San Diego, Orlando and Panama City Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 22, 2026 at 6:55 PM MIAMI \u2014 Haitians in South Florida and across the U.S. are bracing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-349211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}