How ending Temporary Protected Status could impact health care aides

Health adjutant shortage whitethorn worsen aft extremity of TPS

Advocates pass migration changes could worsen wellness attraction adjutant shortage 02:37

Eddie Weinstein's changeable paralyzed the close broadside of his assemblage and near his daughter, Caroline, scrambling.

"I knew the lone mode that helium would past and I would past would beryllium to person him unrecorded astatine location with care," she told CBS News. 

So, successful 2020, Marcia became their location wellness aide.

"It was the archetypal clip since my dad's changeable that I could spot somebody. To cognize that helium would beryllium okay," Caroline said.

Marcia, 53, is from Honduras. Her vocation arsenic a wellness attraction adjutant began 25 years ago, aft Hurricane Mitch devastated her location state and she was granted Temporary Protected Status, giving her ineligible authorization to enactment successful the United States. She did not privation to usage her past sanction for fearfulness of being targeted by national migration authorities.

Now, the White House says conditions successful Honduras person improved, and the Temporary Protected Status for much than 50,000 Hondurans, including Marcia, expires Monday.

"Sometimes I consciousness sad. Sometimes I consciousness angry," Marcia told CBS News.

Asked astir however the U.S. should grip radical granted TPS erstwhile the designation ends, Marcia suggested determination should beryllium immoderate benignant of way to getting a greenish card. 

"Because we are successful this strategy already, 25 years paying taxes," she said.

Marcia works for Sunnyside Community Services successful New York City, wherever much than 900 location wellness aides — much than 90% — are foreign-born, according to the nonprofit.

Sunnyside Community Services Executive Director Judy Zangwill said she's "very concerned" astir the revocation of TPS, saying "it could exacerbate already a nationwide shortage and could effect successful a shortage for america arsenic well" erstwhile it comes to wellness attraction aides.

This past play was Marcia's past with the Weinstein family.

"Sad for maine and bittersweet for them," Marcia said.

Caroline added, "When you find idiosyncratic that you tin spot that loves your loved 1 astatine similar specified a susceptible time, it's terrifying to deliberation astir losing them."

Marcia said she isn't definite what she's going to bash next. She's fundamentally unsocial successful the U.S., and it's been decades since she was past successful Honduras.

The Trump medication says migrants who had TPS and take to self-deport tin get a escaped level ticket, $1,000 and a imaginable aboriginal accidental to legally migrate to the U.S., though it has not provided further details connected however it would facilitate aboriginal ineligible migration.

Camilo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.