‘Each day feels like the last’: Haitians with TPS on edge as confusion clouds US work status

US employers and Haitian immigrants live in constant uncertainty as status of work permits remains in limbo For more than a month, Bobby Kuchinsky arrived at his Florida restaurant each morning worried about whether he still had enough staff or if this might be the last shift for some of his Haitian workers, who have spent more than a decade as cooks, busboys and oyster shuckers. On Tuesday, he suspended six of them after they lost authorization to work in the US. Continue reading...

Associated Press · Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 6:28 AM
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‘Each day feels like the last’: Haitians with TPS on edge as confusion clouds US work status

US employers and Haitian immigrants live in constant uncertainty as status of work permits remains in limbo

For more than a month, Bobby Kuchinsky arrived at his Florida restaurant each morning worried about whether he still had enough staff or if this might be the last shift for some of his Haitian workers, who have spent more than a decade as cooks, busboys and oyster shuckers.

On Tuesday, he suspended six of them after they lost authorization to work in the US.

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