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00:03 Report | Misha Komadovsky
00:13 Nadiege Sterlin | Bakery owner 
00:28 Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 2010
00:50 Misha Komadovsky | DW Correspondent
01:00 Nadiege Sterlin | Bakery owner
01:27 Farah Larrieux | TPS holder

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VO: Nadiege Sterlin is a second-generation Haitian American bakery owner, who, following a new Supreme Court ruling stands to lose a large percentage of her employees. 

Location tag: Miramar, FL 
Date tag: July 22, 2026 

L3:  
Nadiege Sterlin 
Owner, La Paix bakery 

SOT: 40 percent of our backroom staff are TPS (Temporary Protected Status). We're going to have to wait and hear what needs to happen, whether we have to let all these employees go. These are employees that that's been with us for years. 

VO: Temporary Protected Status lets people from countries deemed unsafe live and work legally in the US. Haitians received it after the 2010 earthquake.  

Location tag: Port-au-Prince, Haiti  
Date tag: 2010 

VO: President Trump tried to end the program during his first and second terms, but lawsuits blocked those efforts. That is, until last month, when the Supreme Court allowed his administration to move forward.  

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Misha Komadovsky 
US correspondent 
 
PTC: Now, the case is back in lower courts, where judges are still considering it, leaving hundreds of thousands of TPS holders uncertain whether they'll lose their legal status. 

L3:  
Nadiege Sterlin 
Owner, La Paix bakery 

SOT: They're very disheartened by the situation because it leaves them in limbo, and so those are the things that we're hearing, unfortunately.  

VO: Approximately 350,000 Haitians in the United States are losing Temporary Protected Status after the Department of Homeland Security says it ended the designation.  

Chyron: 350,000 Haitians 

VO: One of Nadiege Sterlin's regular customers, Farah Larrieux, is among them. She is terrified of going back.  

L3:  
Farah Larrieux 
TPS holder 

SOT: When you have 350,000 people leaving the United States and going to Haiti… They will quickly become targets for extortion, for kidnapping, for recruitment by the terrorist groups because they know these people are coming back, they have money, or they have family staying behind in the United States that could send money for them if anything happened to them. 

VO: DW asked the Department of Homeland Security for comment. The agency responded: 

"Temporary Protected Status is exactly that — temporary. For too long, TPS has been allowed to function as a de facto amnesty program despite Congress never intending it to be permanent. What we would say now is it's closing time, which means you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. The good news is it's not too late to get a $2,600 check and a free flight home." 

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VO: Farah says she will try to find other legal ways to stay in the United States. But for now, she's afraid to leave her home for fear of being detained by ICE. That means no more visits to her favourite bakery. And for La Paix, it means losing another loyal customer — at a time when the bakery itself could be forced to scale back or even halt operations because of staff shortages. 

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