Rep. Byron Donalds said Florida can train homegrown workers to replace the roughly 100,000 Haitian immigrants working in the state’s healthcare sector if they lose their legal status and are deported.
The Context
The end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants has created uncertainty for families and employers, and healthcare providers have warned that losing Haitian workers could deepen existing staffing shortages in nursing and caregiving roles.
What Donalds Said
Donalds said the focus should be on ensuring high school graduates have internships, apprenticeships, and workforce training to fill healthcare and other jobs, and expressed confidence that Haiti’s transitional government could stabilize the country enough to allow immigrants to return there.
