"They are the first people they see when they wake up in the morning and they're the last ones that they see before they go to bed," said Simone Smith, vice president of human resources at Cabrini of Westchester.
Affected workers now face the choice of staying without legal status or returning to Haiti amid severe political instability and violence.
"I'm afraid all the time," said a Haitian worker at a Brooklyn nursing home who requested anonymity. "I pay tax to the country.
I'm a good person. … All I want is to work.
When you work, you are a person."
The termination of TPS for Haitians threatens the U. S.
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eldercare sector, leaving vulnerable seniors and facilities without vital staff.
