Duke Workers Lose Jobs, Fear Deportation

0:00It's April 2nd. Welcome in. This is Durham News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Corey with the story. Two long-time Duke University employees, a housekeeper with 23 years on the job, and a bus driver, just lost their positions because of the Trump. Administration revoked temporary protected status for Hondurans. Temporary protected status lets immigrants from dangerous countries like Honduras stay and work legally in the U.S. when things back home are too. Maybe from disasters or violence, but that protection got pulled, leaving folks like these without options. These workers now live in constant fear of immigration raids, even at the grocery store or on their own porches, worried about family separations. After building lives here, with hard work and jobs others avoid, Duke students stepped up, meeting 13 North Carolina legislators this week, including Senator Dan Blue, a Duke alum, pushing for public support. When asking the university to sponsor visas, but Duke says federal rules block that with

1:01no qualifying categories. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court could rule soon on similar TPS cases for Syrians and Haitians, and that decision might ripple out to Hondurans too, keeping hope alive for fair past forward amid the uncertainty.