Father Hilaire Belizaire says the normally packed St. Jerome Church in Little Haiti has gotten a little quieter.

“I wasn’t sure what was going on until I was like, ‘Oh, the executive order,’” Belizaire said.

Belizaire says the recent order by the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status, also known as TPS, for Haitians has many community members living in fear.

TPS is a temporary immigration benefit granted to nationals of another country when conditions prevent their safe return home.

“They’re afraid of being stopped by [U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement] agents,” Belizaire said.

“The streets are quiet. That’s what [is] really sad. People that actually have businesses and that have families are kind of going underground,” Harry D’Janite said.

That’s because officials say gangs control 85% of Haiti’s capital, and gang violence has left more than one million people homeless.

On Friday, D’Janite hosted elected officials outside the church to rally in support of TPS-protected Haitians.

“It’s just horrible, and we felt like we needed to come together to make our voices heard, to stand in a unified voice to make it be known we will not go for it, we will not stand for it,” D’Janite said.

The New York metro-area has the second-largest Haitian population in the nation, with an estimated 163,000 Haitian immigrants calling the area home.

D’Janite says sending them back to a Haiti, many of whom have lived in this country for years, is inhumane.

“We are the voice of the voiceless,” D’Janite said.

TPS for Haitians is set to expire Aug. 3.