by Daniel Arkin
Just before bedtime on Monday night, Reginald
Lysias sat his 6-year-old daughter down and told her something he knew
would break her heart.
"I told her we have to
go to Haiti," Lysias recalled. "She asked me, 'Why?' I told her that
President Donald Trump doesn't want us to stay in the U.S."
The girl cried all night.
Lysias,
a 40-year-old pastor at a Baptist church in Northern California, is one
of as many as 60,000 Haitians living and working in the U.S. on a
temporary residency program created after a catastrophic earthquake
rocked the Caribbean nation in 2010. The Trump administration has
announced that it plans to end "temporary protected status," or TPS, for those Haitians on July 22, 2019.
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