One family’s reaction to Trump’s removal of TPS

Last weekend, a family from Nicaragua let us know how desperate they felt when they learned the current administration was canceling humanitarian parole for immigrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti.

The mother shared that in 2023, they were given the opportunity to come to this country legally with a work permit, and the possibility of changing their immigration status in the future.

Now, she says, they are so discouraged. “Everything points to a quick and ruthless exit. Our spirits have plunged, and we feel helpless, vulnerable, and deeply saddened. Our daughter is suffering from anxiety like she experienced back in Nicaragua.”

Their 16 year old daughter shared, “I am afraid something might happen to my parents. I am afraid of being left alone with my brother.”

They are stuck between a home country where they are unsafe, and the U.S. where they are unwelcome. Immigrants like this family expect to have to reapply for this protected status, but now everything has changed. That opportunity has been taken away.

The daughter says, “I feel trapped and imprisoned in a place that is not my home."