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Kristi Noem Lies: Stop the Deportation of 340,000
Haitians with Temporary Protected Status</span></u></b><span
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">b</span><span
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Charlie Hinton<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Per <i>The
Guardian</i> 11/26/25, \u201c</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)">The
Trump administration has once again moved to halt
humanitarian protections for Haitians living in the US,
this time announcing that their </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/what-is-temporary-protected-status"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(150,96,125)"
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;border:1pt windowtext;padding:0in">temporary
protected status (TPS)</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;border:1pt windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)">will
expire on 3 February.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;vertical-align:baseline">\u201c<a
href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-21379.pdf"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(150,96,125)"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;border:1pt windowtext;padding:0in">According
to</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)"> a new
Department of Homeland Security notice issued on
Wednesday, TPS for approximately 340,000 Haitian refugees
will be terminated next year.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)">\u201cIn the
notice, the DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, said that Haiti no
longer faces \u2018extraordinary and temporary conditions\u2019 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 </span><a
href="https://www.iom.int/news/displacement-haiti-reaches-record-high-14-million-people-flee-violence"
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;border:1pt windowtext;padding:0in">record
1.4 million people</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)"> from
their homes this year.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)">\u201cDespite
acknowledging that \u2018certain conditions in </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:blue;border:1pt windowtext;padding:0in">Haiti</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)"> remain
concerning\u2019, including mass displacement and gang
violence, and that the country\u2019s turmoil has \u2018spillover
effects \u2026 [that] threaten not only Haiti but the stability
of the wider Caribbean and the western hemisphere\u2019. The
notice nonetheless argues that allowing Haitians to remain
in the United States is \u2018contrary to the US national
interest\u2019.\u201d<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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\u2019s capital, Port-au-Prince, and the
surrounding area. This was followed by Hurricane Matthew
in 2016, and the 7.2 earthquake which devastated Haiti\u2019s
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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-indent:0.4in"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Trump\u2019s
attacks on Haitians follow in the footsteps of the Biden
administration\u2019s deportation of 25,000 Haitians, the most
by any administration. It was during Biden\u2019s 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\u2019s 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</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(251,0,7)">-</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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 \u201cfamily values\u201d
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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The key
here is</span><b><i><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"> the
review of</span></i></b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"> <b><i>country
conditions.</i></b> As noted above, TPS was </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">created
to protect people from having to return to unsafe
conditions in their home countries. </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Since the
U.S-orchestrated 2004 coup against the government of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the most progressive in
Haiti\u2019s history, U.S.-backed right-wing governments and
elites in Haiti have empowered armed paramilitaries
(so-called \u201cgangs\u201d) 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 </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">President </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Aristide\u2019s
Lavalas Party. They have created what Haitians call a
\u201chell on earth\u201d. </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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\u2019s breadbasket Artibonite region.</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;word-break:break-all"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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 <i>more than
a million</i> have been forced to flee their homes. The
death squads have attacked schools and hospitals \u2013 <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;word-break:break-all"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">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. </span><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)">The <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;word-break:break-all"><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)">current </span></b><a
href="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"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(150,96,125)"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">US State
Department travel advisory to Haiti</span></b></a><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)"> states,
\u201c</span></b><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,56,117)">Do not
travel to Haiti due to kidnapping, crime, terrorist
activity, civil unrest, and limited <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;word-break:break-all"><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,56,117)">health
care.\u201d </span></b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">And
this is the situation that Donald Trump and Kristi Noem
want to force hundreds of thousands of people to return
to. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;word-break:break-all"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">Kristi Noem
is <b><i>lying</i></b> when she says, Haiti </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)">no
longer faces \u2018extraordinary and temporary conditions.\u2019
Haiti\u2019s increasingly deteriorating situation is indeed
\u201cextraordinary,\u201d 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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(18,18,18)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica">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. </span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:11pt">Please stay
tuned and support all efforts to block these heartless
deportations. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Charlie
Hinton is a member of Haiti Action Committee and the Drop
LWOP Coalition. He is the author of the play <i>Solitary
Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison</i> and a book
of collected writings, <i>Life Wish.</i></span></p>
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