Halting the deployment immediately prioritizes preventing a massive economic collapse, which would disproportionately harm vulnerable populations including immigrant communities already affected by the bias, aligning with ethical principles of harm reduction and justice. While exposing the bias could damage public trust and invite regulatory scrutiny, this transparency is preferable to gambling on a 24-hour patch that risks catastrophic failure, affecting stakeholders like the general public, financial institutions, and the economy at large. The trade-off involves short-term reputational damage versus the uncertainty of successfully patching the flaw in time, but averting guaranteed harm outweighs the potential benefits of a covert fix.