Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso on Wednesday rallied in Little Haiti in Flatbush to denounce the federal government's mass deportation plan that may decimate Brooklyn's Haitian community.
Speaking alongside advocates, faith leaders and elected officials in solidarity with Haitian immigrants, Reynoso decried the Trump administration's attempt to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for an estimated 500,000 Haitians who lack permanent legal status.
“In Brooklyn, when you come for one of us, you come for all of us,” Reynoso said in a statement.
Haitians came to the U.S. in need of refuge from an intense string of disaster, crisis and political instability, he said.
"TPS for Haiti has allowed thousands of Haitian immigrants to find a new beginning in our borough, and