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After a date was finally selected—June 30, 2024—Hochul intervened to stall the toll with just weeks to go, reportedly in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the 2022 midterms, in which Democrats wiped out in the congressional races in the New York suburbs, handing the GOP control of the House.

Democrats took back three of the four seats they lost two years ago, and Hochul has now set a date for the policy to take effect: Jan. 5, 2025.

Her date at London's Koko is sold out.

In George Orwell’s classic depiction of an authoritarian society, “Nineteen Eighty-four,” a key component of political control is the state’s erasure of history: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten … every date has been altered. … After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains.”

Should the Trump administration end TPS status for Haitian and other immigrant groups nationwide, the Department of Homeland Security would make the decision at least 60 days prior to the status' expiry date, according to the American Immigration Council.