[News] Kristi Noem Lies: Stop the Deportation of 340,000 Haitians with TPS

[Anti-Imperialist News]

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Kristi Noem Lies: Stop the Deportation of 340,000 Haitians with 
Temporary Protected Status_*____

by Charlie Hinton____

Per /The Guardian/ 11/26/25, “The Trump administration has once again 
moved to halt humanitarian protections for Haitians living in the US, 
this time announcing that their temporary protected status 
(TPS)<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/what-is-temporary-protected-status>will 
expire on 3 February.____

“According to 
<https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-21379.pdf> a new 
Department of Homeland Security notice issued on Wednesday, TPS for 
approximately 340,000 Haitian refugees will be terminated next year.____

“In the notice, the DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, said that Haiti no 
longer faces ‘extraordinary and temporary conditions’ that would prevent 
nationals from returning. That statement comes despite worsening 
instability from gang violence in Haiti and political turmoil that has 
forced more than a record 1.4 million people 
<https://www.iom.int/news/displacement-haiti-reaches-record-high-14-million-people-flee-violence> from 
their homes this year.____

“Despite acknowledging that ‘certain conditions in Haiti remain 
concerning’, including mass displacement and gang violence, and that the 
country’s turmoil has ‘spillover effects … [that] threaten not only 
Haiti but the stability of the wider Caribbean and the western 
hemisphere’. The notice nonetheless argues that allowing Haitians to 
remain in the United States is ‘contrary to the US national interest’.”____

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) allows foreign nationals from 
designated countries to live and work in the United States temporarily 
due to unsafe conditions in their home countries, such as ongoing armed 
conflict or an environmental disaster that would prevent them from 
returning home safely. ____

In 2010, Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security, granted 
TPS to Haiti after the disastrous earthquake that killed more than 
300,000 people and devastated Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and the 
surrounding area. This was followed by Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and 
the 7.2 earthquake which devastated Haiti’s southern peninsula in 2021. 
However, TPS does not provide a pathway to permanent residency. Instead, 
TPS allows beneficiaries to live and, in some cases, work in the US for 
a limited amount of time, usually 6, 12 or 18 months, after which it 
must be renewed, or it can be cancelled.____

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Trump’s attacks on Haitians follow in the footsteps of the Biden 
administration’s deportation of 25,000 Haitians, the most by any 
administration. It was during Biden’s presidency that border patrol 
agents in Texas were caught on camera whipping Haitian migrants, in 
scenes reminiscent of slavery.  But under pressure from immigration 
activists, Biden renewed TPS for Haitian migrants for 18 months on July 
1, 2024. On Feb. 20, 2025, Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security, 
Kristi Noem, partially vacated that notice and changed the extension 
period to one year, meaning that Haitian TPS holders who have been 
living, working, raising families with American-born children, and 
paying taxes could have been deported starting on August 3, 2025. A 
court then ruled that the Trump administration needed to honor the full 
18 months, which end on February 3, and now it is refusing to extend TPS 
beyond the 18 month limit set by Biden. Since many of the children of 
TPS holders were born in this country and have birthright citizenship, 
the party of “family values” is threatening the devastating separation 
of many of these families, as well as attempting to cancel the 
constitutional right to birthright citizenship granted to all people 
born in the United States.____

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The key here is*/ the review of/**/country conditions./* As noted above, 
TPS was created to protect people from having to return to unsafe 
conditions in their home countries. Since the U.S-orchestrated 2004 coup 
against the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the most 
progressive in Haiti’s history, U.S.-backed right-wing governments and 
elites in Haiti have empowered armed paramilitaries (so-called “gangs”) 
to attack opposition neighborhoods and facilitate drug and arms 
trafficking, while wreaking havoc on civil society. These paramilitaries 
support themselves by looting, as they burn houses, gang rape women, and 
terrorize whole communities, particularly in neighborhoods supportive of 
former President Aristide’s Lavalas Party. They have created what 
Haitians call a “hell on earth”. Armed with weapons that flow in 
illegally, mainly from South Florida, these paramilitary forces now 
dominate 85-90% of Port-au-Prince, and are moving into other parts of 
the country, including Haiti’s breadbasket Artibonite region.____

These death squads control all roads in and out of Port-au-Prince, 
extracting bribes to pass through and creating mass shortages of basic 
supplies. Thousands of people have been killed in the last year and 
/more than a million/ have been forced to flee their homes. The death 
squads have attacked schools and hospitals – ____

any institution that benefits civil society. There is not one elected 
official in the country. There is no functioning government and there 
are no services. *The ____*

*current **US State Department travel advisory to Haiti* 
<https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/International-Travel-Country-Information-Pages/Haiti.html?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=44031958015&gbraid=0AAAAAqbBk5vDIMw60F3DX5wYuVg0cysIB&gclid=CjwKCAiA86_JBhAIEiwA4i9Ju5LTgHd8kqYla4cnciq50UNbOKWETOhzH_PYwKc1Zxlrds8GFctxyRoCqnkQAvD_BwE>* states, 
“**Do not travel to Haiti due to kidnapping, crime, terrorist activity, 
civil unrest, and limited ____*

*health care.” *And this is the situation that Donald Trump and Kristi 
Noem want to force hundreds of thousands of people to return to. ____

Kristi Noem is */lying/* when she says, Haiti no longer faces 
‘extraordinary and temporary conditions.’ Haiti’s increasingly 
deteriorating situation is indeed “extraordinary,” and has been made 
permanent for more than 20 years since the United States organized the 
coup against President Aristide, with a US military plane flying him and 
his family out of the country after kidnapping them in the dead of night 
as they slept on February 29, 2004. The situation is only becoming more 
dire with the inhumane US foreign policy of increased militarism and 
reduced aid and services that could actually help people. ____

For justice to be done, Haitians must be able to return to a country 
freed from the violence imposed by decades of U.S.-backed 
anti-democratic rule.  Haitians who choose to remain in the United 
States should be granted the legal permanent residency they have earned. 
Please stay tuned and support all efforts to block these heartless 
deportations.

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Charlie Hinton is a member of Haiti Action Committee and the Drop LWOP 
Coalition. He is the author of the play /Solitary Man: A Visit to 
Pelican Bay State Prison/ and a book of collected writings, /Life Wish./


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