Temporary Protected Status has expired for more than 300,000 Haitians and Syrians, leaving thousands in New York and around the country vulnerable and unmoored after sometimes decades here, all to please Stephen Miller and Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant zealotry. We know what isn’t going to happen: these people are not going to just up and leave lives they’ve spent years building here with the express permission of Uncle Sam. Now that the government has changed its mind, it doesn’t have anywhere close to the capacity to remove them, either, despite its best (and most authoritarian) efforts. Instead, hundreds of thousands of these folks will continue to live and work in the country as our friends and neighbors, but now without work authorization or protections from deportation, in more dangerous and itinerant lives. So now those who have been fully legal and taxpaying cabdrivers, nurses, teachers, small business owners and more, will be forced instead into underground, less-regulated industries and jobs where they will be more susceptible to abuse and under-payment and unable to u
