The announcement signals relief for a number of Haitian immigrants, whose legal status was in limbo following a 2017 announcement by then president Donald Trump that would have removed their TPS protection.
The Trump administration is ending a program that allows citizens of Liberia living in the US to avoid deportation - but there is a one-year "wind-down" period to ease their return.
Haitian immigrants received Temporary Protected Status after a 2010 earthquake that devastated the already impoverished Caribbean nation.
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