Donald Trump will cease at nothing to show that he’s the worst particular person to carry workplace ever. It has solely been six months, and the orangeman has upended nearly each longstanding public coverage in the US, from abortion rights to immigration. Over the previous couple of months, we’ve watched Hispanic and Latino immigrants band collectively to protest the focused ICE assaults which have sparked intense worry of their communities. Nevertheless, when you thought that Trump’s vitriol was strictly for these teams, you then clearly haven’t been paying consideration.
In response to reporting by NBC Information, the Division of Homeland Safety has introduced that Momentary Protected Standing (TPS) has been revoked for half one million Haitian immigrants who got here to America to flee gang battle, political oppression, and pure disasters. The TPS program was first launched again in 1990 to supply refuge for international residents whose lives could be in danger in the event that they have been to remain of their homeland. The Council on International Relations states that at the moment, 17 international locations have been granted this standing, Haiti being considered one of them. Different international locations, together with Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cameroon, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Myanmar, are additionally on the checklist.
A part of what’s so perverse about this coverage reversal is that, based on the Miami Herald, the Trump administration is utilizing the truth that Haiti is so war-torn and rife with gang violence as an excuse to ship Haitians again to a harmful nation. Even the State Division is labeling a lot of Haiti’s armed resistance teams as “international terrorists.”
Even nonetheless, a DHS spokesperson has fastened their bootlickin’ lips to say, “the environmental scenario in Haiti has improved sufficient that it’s secure for Haitian residents to return residence.” Improved? Right here’s what the aforementioned NBC Information article says about that “enchancment”:
Greater than 1,800 folks have been kidnapped and eight,200 killed in Haiti since gang violence escalated in March of final yr; a document 1.3 million persons are presently homeless, in accordance to the United Nations.
Do these numbers sound “secure” to you?
