Warren, Lawmakers Lead Over 50 Members of Congress in Opening New Investigation into Trump Ripping Legal Status Away from Haitian Workers
“This trend of de-legalizing legal immigrant workers will not make Americans safer. It will simply leave our communities with fewer options for quality, affordable care”
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), along with Representatives Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Deborah Ross (D-N.C.) led 52 members of Congress in writing to LeadingAge, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Nurses United, MASS Senior Care Association, and The Arc of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Nurses Association, SEIU 509, and the Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers, asking them to share how the end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from Haiti would affect the health care, elder care, and disability care workforce and patients.
“We are gravely concerned that the end of TPS for Haiti will threaten access to health care, elder care, and disability care for American families,” wrote the lawmakers.
To date, about 1.5 million people on TPS have been stripped of legal immigrant status by the Trump administration. The termination of TPS for Haiti—scheduled for February 3, 2026—will affect over 300,000 Haitians residing legally in the United States.
Haitian immigrants are heavily represented in the U.S. health care workforce. In hospitals, nursing homes, and home-care settings around the country, many Haitians on TPS perform vital care-related services, including bathing, dressing, feeding, and transferring patients, which allows older adults and people with disabilities to live with dignity.
Experts have warned that TPS terminations will contribute to “serious disrupt[ions]” of “health care facilities, which already struggle to hire enough workers.” Care facilities have already lost or are preparing to lose critical Haitian immigrant workers due to President Trump’s immigration policy changes. For example: in 2025, an elder care facility in Florida had to fire dozens of Haitian employees who represented almost 10 percent of the staff; a Boston hospital that relies heavily on Haitian Certified Nursing Assistants is bracing for staffing shortages; and a senior housing and health care facility in Virginia was forced to lay off Haitian employees and then struggled to fill their roles.
“This trend of de-legalizing legal immigrant workers will not make Americans safer. It will simply leave our communities with fewer options for quality, affordable care,” wrote the lawmakers.
The lawmakers asked the organizations to provide data and stories about the impact of the TPS termination on the health care workforce and patients by February 17, 2026.
Senators Cory Booker Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), along with Representatives Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), Wesley Bell (D-Mo.), Shontel Brown (D-Ohio), André Carson (D-Ind.), Sean Casten (D-Ill.), Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), Joe Courtney (D-Conn.), Danny Davis (D-Ill.), Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Dwight Evans (D-Pa.), Shomari Figures (D-Ala.), Jesús "Chuy" García (D-Ill.), Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), Al Green (D-Texas), Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Jonathan L. Jackson (D-Ill.), Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Bill Keating (D-Mass.), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), Summer Lee (D-Pa.), Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), Sarah McBride (D-Dele.), Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.), Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Richard Neal (D-Mass.), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Darren Soto (D-Fla.), Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.), Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), Juan Vargas (D-Calif.), and Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) joined in signing the letter.
Senator Warren has led the way in fighting to ensure TPS holders from Haiti receive the protections they deserve:
- In September 2025, Senator Warren led 105 members of Congress in writing to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Labor (DoL) to warn that the Trump administration’s move to cancel Temporary Protected Status (TPS), would threaten the health care workforce and could lead to rising costs and lower quality of care for Americans.
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