UNITED STATES-NY Governor visits Caribbean community, backs TPS for Haitians.

NEW YORK, CMC – New York Governor Kathy Hochul has reaffirmed her support for Haitians whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has been terminated by the Trump administration as she paid a visit to the Caribbean community in Brooklyn.

Hochul, accompanied by her running mate, the former New York City speaker, Adrienne Adams, described as a “tragedy” the US Supreme Court’s concurrence with the administration to end TPS for nearly 350,000 Haitians living in the United States.

“I will continue to stand up to the cruelty the Trump administration is taking,” Hochul told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) exclusively at her first stop at Allan’s Bakery, urging Haitian nationals that they should not give up hope.

“Our country is better than this,” she said, referring to the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

When asked about the feedback she has been receiving from the Haitian community since the termination of TPS, Hochul, who was also flanked by the Haitian-born representative for the 40th Council District in Brooklyn, Council Member Rita Joseph, said: “People are scared. They don’t know what to do.”

The GovernorGovernor noted that she has passed legislation to rein in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New York.

Last week, Hochul launched the Office of Immigrant Trust (OIT) to ensure it does not collude with federal immigration enforcement agencies, such as ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

In making the announcement, Hochul and New York State Attorney General Letitia James said that OIT will be charged with investigating potential unlawful collusion by State and local government employees with federal immigration enforcement.

The Governor and James also sent letters to the 12 local law enforcement agencies in New York that currently have 287(g) agreements with ICE, informing them that state law requires them to unwind the agreements by August 25, 2026.

“Nobody is above the law. In New York, we will not tolerate the diversion of local resources for federal civil immigration enforcement at the expense of public safety,” Hochul said, adding “that’s why we passed a commonsense set of laws standing up against federal overreach and ensuring that the highest funded law enforcement agency in the country does not deputize local law enforcement.

“My top priority is keeping New Yorkers safe. Ensuring our law enforcement remains focused on local crimes is essential to protecting our communities and maintaining public safety.”

Hochul and James said the new OIT is a first-of-its-kind statewide bureau within the Office of the Attorney General (OAG).

With Haitians increasingly under siege by the Trump administration, Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke said she’s standing firm with her “Haitian neighbors”.

“As TPS for Haiti reaches its premature end and the latest chapter in Donald Trump’s cruel crusade against immigrant Americans begins, I stand with the nearly 350,000 Haitian nationals across the United States who we have come to call our friends, neighbors, and loved ones,” Clarke the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, who co-chairs the US House of Representatives’ Haiti Caucus and Caribbean Caucus, told CMC.

Last week, James joined a coalition of 18 other attorneys general in urging the US Congress to extend TPS for Haitians.

In June, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could move forward with stripping TPS from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants.

The attorneys general said the decision threatens the nearly 350,000 Haitians who have spent years living, working and raising their families in the US, particularly in New York, which is home to one of the nation’s largest Haitian communities.

They said the Supreme Court’s decision also makes it “significantly more difficult to challenge In a letter to Congressional leadership, the coalition urges Congress to pass legislation requiring judicial oversight of TPS decisions and extending TPS for Haitian immigrants who are facing deportation.