The Trump administration insists conditions have improved enough in Honduras and Nicaragua to send migrants protected from deportation back to those countries — but those groups disagree and argue it's wrong to return them after so many years in the U.

SPRING VALLEY − U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler stood in front of First Timothy Christian Church, a stalwart institution for Rockland's Haitian diaspora, to urge anyone on Temporary Protected Status and other stop-gap programs to hurry and apply for more permanent status in the U.S.

Despite TPS being eliminated, legal Haitians immigrants in Ohio say they aren't going anywhere while others are lost as to what's next.

In a break with the Trump administration, Republican New York Congressman Mike Lawler is urging Haitian residents in Spring Valley to seek asylum before temporary protected status for Haitians ends on September 2.

The Trump administration says conditions in Haiti have improved enough for migrants to return to there. Haitians, Ohio governor disagree.

Virginia Guevara came to the United States from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in the 1990s, before the country was granted Temporary Protected Status following the devastating destruction caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

Anna arrived in the United States to start a new life in the midwestern state of Illinois. After more than a year of war, she had fled her home in Kyiv to seek shelter abroad from the drone and missile strikes that regularly target the Ukrainian capital.

A federal judge said the Trump administration did not give 500,000 Haitians scheduled to lose Temporary Protected Status enough notice of deportation.

South Florida immigration attorney Vanessa Joseph says Haitian immigrants are worried and fearful they may be forced to leave the U.S. after the Trump administration announced last week it’s terminating Temporary Protected Status,

In general, Americans’ views of immigration policies have shifted dramatically in the last year, the Gallup polling shows — including among Republicans, who have become much more content with immigration levels since Trump took office but who have also grown more supportive of pathways to citizenship for people in the country illegally.