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Eliot Engel: “If President Trump does not extend TPS, 50,000 Haitian Americans will be sent back to the poorest country in the…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2017
If President Trump does not extend TPS, 50,000 Haitian Americans will be sent back to the poorest country in the hemisphere.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel warns about the consequences of ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians.

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