Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick's Statement on the Biden Administration’s Extension and Redesignation of TPS for Haiti

tps haiti statement
June 28, 2024
Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick issued the following statement regarding the Biden Administration’s announcement of the extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti.

“I applaud the decision of President Biden and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to extend and redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti for 18 months, providing protection for more than 300,000 Haitians in the U.S. This action could not come at a more crucial time, as Haiti faces a political crisis of epic proportion, with its people calling out for refuge from violence, persecution, and trauma.

“As a result of my fierce advocacy efforts and those of various Haitian American community leaders for the extension and redesignation of TPS for Haiti, the Biden-Harris Administration listened and responded. The United States cannot turn its back on those seeking refuge as a global leader in democracy and human rights. Today, the Biden-Harris Administration demonstrated their commitment to these principles that make America great.”

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s Actions on the Extension and Redesignation of TPS for Haiti:

  • April 23, 2024 - Rep. Sheila Cherfilus McCormick, along with Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Yvette D. Clarke and Ayanna Pressley led a group of 50 lawmakers urging the Biden Administration to redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), pause on deportations back to Haiti, extend humanitarian parole to any Haitians currently detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention centers, end the detention of Haitian migrants intercepted at sea, and provide additional humanitarian assistance for Haiti.
     
  • March 20, 2024 - Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) led a Florida Democratic Congressional Delegation letter to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis concerning the potential mass migration from Haiti to Florida, urging Republicans to address the root causes of migration.  

  • March 18, 2024 - Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus, and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA), along with Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Yvette Clarke (NY-09) and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), led a group of 67 lawmakers in urging the Department of Homeland Security Secretary and Department of State to immediately redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti.   

  • January 30, 2024 – Reps. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) pushed back against efforts to substantially weaken or end the Biden-Harris Administration’s Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela parole program. 

  • September 1, 2023 – Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement on reporting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is continuing to conduct deportation flights to Haiti.

  • December 6, 2022 – Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement on the extension and redesignation of TPS for Haiti.   

  • December 1, 2022 – Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) led a letter of more than a dozen lawmakers urging the U.S. Department of State and the international community to investigate the mass deportations of Haitian migrants and the discriminatory, anti-Black migration enforcement practices taking place in the Dominican Republic. 

  • November 22, 2022 – Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) issued a statement regarding the Dominican Republic’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants. 

  • March 21, 2022 - Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick visited detained Haitian migrants in Broward County. 
     
  • March 17, 2022 – Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick called on the Biden Administration to end Title 42 expulsions and cease deporting people to Haiti and grant them the legal right to seek asylum.  

  • March 7, 2022 - Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement on the Haiti migration crisis.  

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-D-20) is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus.

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