NY Gov. Kathy Hochul: Don’t Deport ‘Essential’ Haitians, Salvadorans Who Staff Government
Temporary immigrants are “essential” to the operation of New York’s government, Governor Kathy Hochul said.
Hundreds of Haitians and Salvadorans who are set to be deported as their “temporary protected status” ends are needed to work in the New York state government and local entities, Governor Kathy Hochul said recently. The nursing home industry has similarly pleaded with Trump to protect its low-wage worker base.
The Democratic governor urged Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to stop the deportation of Haitians and Salvadorans.
She wrote on Monday:
The callousness of abruptly ending TPS for legally-present individuals including the recent termination for Haitians and the forthcoming termination for Salvadorans will force New York State and local governments to sever the employment of hundreds of essential employees as soon as next week, putting their livelihoods – and potentially their safety – at risk.
The governor decided insulting the president was a good strategy to win his favor. “By knowingly and cruelly forcing thousands of families to leave our country and return to their home countries, regardless of any ongoing or worsening humanitarian crises, the White House is committing a reckless and inhumane act,” she wrote.
El Salvador residents have been granted “temporary protected status” since 2001, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Haitians have been allowed to stay here since 2010 under the same protections.
Terminating Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants is reckless and inhumane.
My letter to @SecMullinDHS: pic.twitter.com/GpSK6E6S89
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) August 17, 2026
However, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Trump to rescind protected status in its June 25 decision, Mullin v. Doe.
The nursing home industry is also pushing back, as it relies heavily on immigrant workers (to keep costs low).
“New York has the highest share of immigrant direct care workers of any state, with 40,000 Haitian TPS holders — 7,000 of whom work as nursing assistants and direct care givers,” Stephen Hanse, president and CEO of the New York State Health Facilities Association and the New York State Center for Assisted Living, wrote on August 14.
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Someone put this lich back in her tomb so NY can get a real governor
Forget it Rick, it’s New York.
I propose an alternative arrangement:
For every “essential” illegal Haitian and Salvadoran deported from a government position, deport an additional white Democrat from the same office.
Starting with Hochul, Mamdummy, and Letitia James.
How about only have citizens working in government? That’s not hard. Don’t you pay a living wage, as you always brag about?
No doubt, one of these illegals working for the state our members of the SEIU.
And speech to text is not perfected.
Unbelievable. The Democrat will do anything to keep their illegals.
Why do Americans not have these jobs.
Because the type of people who would be doing those jobs are handed EBT cards, section 8, free telephones, free, medical care, free…
Yup. The Great Society put blacks on welfare and ginned up immigration to replace them in the largely menial jobs they had performed.
This perhaps the most concise and correct statement about the topic. I would like to add that the effort has taken about 60 years and cost about $5T, and we have nothing of value to show for that.
But don’t forget all the Democrat seats!
Because they’re jobs that no American wants? 😁
I would prefer to not work. I just like paying my bills and buying nice stuff. My white privilege forces me to do that via a job. Maybe free stuff shouldn’t be an option for anyone with two arms, two legs and an IQ over 75.
It welfare was screwed down really really tight, the dignity of work – regardless how menial – would be discovered by many.
Haven’t these immigrants had many years to change their status?
Yes but …the main pathways for TPS grantee to permanent lawful status would be military service and marriage to a Citizen. There’s not a direct path from TPS to green card and/or Citizenship that I’m aware of which wouldn’t require them to exit the USA.
The entire point of the “T” was the presumption that the problem they were escaping from was temporary and that they weren’t entering the US as immigrants but as “displaced persons” who would return to their homes as soon as it was possible. Their entry was conditional, as is the entry of all foreigners – conditions apply depending on how they enter and for what purpose. Only US citizens enter the country unconditionally.
Absolutely true that TPS with emphasis on TEMPORARY should have been revoked long ago … though that’s not really relevant to the question posed by Hodge about ‘changing their status’.
If it were up to me TPS would always be revoked automatically at the 18 month mark absent a majority vote by Congress with Presidential signature to extend for six months and everyone offered a plane ride home or if they refused the order to get out at end of TPS they’d be put in prison/farm and then deported.
I doubt NY state government has many essential workers and that includes the governor. I double doubt any of them are illegal.
From Grok:
In 2024, New York state and federal investigators examined hundreds of computer programming consultants (many migrants, often from India) working for state agencies under contracts (e.g., HBITS). Many allegedly used forged green cards, fraudulent visa documents, or fabricated resumes/work histories.
In January 2026, ICE detained Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez (also referred to as Rafael Rubio), a data analyst employed by the City Council. DHS described him as a “criminal illegal alien” from Venezuela who overstayed a 2017 tourist visa, lacked work authorization, and had a prior assault arrest.
NYPD and other departments hire many foreign-born officers (including some who were previously undocumented and later obtained legal status/citizenship).
Civilian NYPD roles (e.g., school safety agents, traffic enforcement agents, 911 operators) generally do not require citizenship and have served as a common pipeline for immigrants.
Oh they have essential workers at the low levels because no one else in the state feels the need to do work any more.
Not at the wage rates offered. Don’t forget that there’s an unholy alliance of open borders folks comprised of corporations who want cheap labor, unions who want dues paying members, govt/NGOs who want to administer all the benefit programs and politicians who want them in their district to kick up campaign donation, show up to rallies and count in the census to add more Federal $ and an extra CD or two. Low wage TPS employees check all those boxes.
Instead how about temporary really does mean temporary and the fools who arrogantly presumed it meant permanent gotta deal with consequences of their own making? Y’all deliberately chose to hire people who could have their TEMPORARY permission to remain in the USA terminated, if you built your system around cheaper, temporary labor instead of offering true market rate wages/benefits to Citizens and green card holders that’s on you. No whining b/c the long delayed reckoning has arrived.
What? Temporary does not mean forever? What the heck is wrong with you!
‘Stupid is as stupid does’.
Excuse me, I believe the saying goes “Stupid am as stupid does”. 🤣
Even Milton Friedman explained why THAT wasn’t true.
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
There was a great Playboy cartoon from 50 years ago about two guys in an empty office and one says to the other “they said that only essential government employees were to report for work, and I guess that’s us.”
So she is admitting that immigration depresses wages.
I live in New York and I’m willing to accept a compromise. Keep the Somalians and Haitians. Deport Hochul.
El Salvador is one of the safest countries in the world now. Haiti is, and will always be, a shithole but these people can take their skills back home and try to improve it.
She said don’t deport essential Haitian workers. That was really code speak for don’t deport essential Haitian voters.
Did they even try to hire Americans? or were these essential jobs simply handed to the temporary illegals? I”ll guess its the latter.
“But who will pick our crops and bring us fresh mint juleps?”
7000 nursing assistants? Those are high paying jobs (thanks to Obamacare, which was designed to bring 1/7th or our entire economy into the Democrat-controlled public unions).
High paying jobs that ought to be going to Americans.
Kicking them out “[puts] their livelihoods – and potentially their safety – at risk.”
Their livelihoods are not our concern. Immigration should be about what they are doing for us, not what we can do for them.
What they are doing to us is taking jobs from Americans and lowering our wages. Get them out.
If ever there were words uttered that require an instant Luigi-ing. These are it. And given that face it will put the world and her out of each others misery.
DEEBEE: I don’t think you are in the right topic, and frankly, I don’t care for your suggestion that someone should be murdered.
There is a fundamental underlying question which no one ever seems to ask:
Why is it the duty of the United States to even offer TPS? Assuming such a course were deemed necessary surely it is a job for the United Nations and the burden should shared among all its members.
I could see perhaps a 90 day visa for women and children who have established legal resident et al relatives in this country but working age males should be …working… on rebuilding their homeland.
When was the humanitarian practice started, by whom, and why?
It’s not just the USA — it’s also every one of the “western civilization” democracies of Europe.
There’s really no way this occurred by accident or coincidence,
The lefties who deride the “White Man’s Burden” are never shy about turning around and demanding we be saddled with it when it furthers their purposes.
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