How ending TPS is squeezing workers, businesses and (soon) consumers

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  What happens when roughly a million people working legally in the U.S.

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  Suddenly lose the right to stay here?

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  That is what we're in the process of finding out.

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  The Trump administration is dismantling Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

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  It's a humanitarian designation that protects certain foreign nationals,

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  regardless of immigration status, from deportation, because their home country isn't safe.

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  At the start of Trump's second term, 17 countries were covered by TPS.

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  Since then, the administration has terminated or tried to terminate 13 of them.

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  And by the end of this year, the number of countries covered by TPS might be zero.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Adrian Ma.

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  And I'm Ricky Mulvey.

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  What does terminating TPS mean for people's lives, their livelihoods, and the U.S.

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  Economy?

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  Today on the show, we'll find out by looking to Florida, home to more Haitian TPS holders than any other state.

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