Trump is completing deportation defense for 500,000 Haitians

The US Government will terminate the temporary protective status (TPS) for 500,000 Haitians living in the country in August, the Ministry of Interior Security reported on Thursday.

This comes despite the deteriorating conditions in the Caribbean country, with bands controling about 85% of capital and sexual abuse of children, which increased by 1000% last year, According to the United Nations organizationS

TPS is provided to citizens of certain countries facing dangerous conditions, such as armed conflicts or environmental disasters.

US President Donald Trump has moved to process parts of the US Immigration System After returning to the office and promised “mass deportations” and arrests.

TPS has been held by Haitians from 2010 and will end on August 3, 2025.

This means that they will lose their work permits and may be entitled to deportation.

On February 1, the Trump administration announced that the status would also end the Venezuela people living in the United States, but it is currently facing a legal challenge by the National TPS Alliance.

“For decades, the TPS system has been operated and abused,” said a statement from the Ministry of Homeland Security in a message on Thursday.

The system allowed Haitians, who “entered the United States illegally to qualify for legal protective status,” she added.

But the message is also met with criticism.

More than 5,600 people in Haiti were killed in violence with bands last year And the UN said families “struggle to survive improvised shelters while facing increasing health and protection risks.”

The Democratic Congressman Ayana Presley called the decision “shame” against the backdrop of “indescribable violence” in Haiti.

The Haitians, who live in the United States for 15 years, have been at risk of deportation for “there is no other reason but to be Haitians,” she added.

During his presidential campaign, Trump made an unjustified claim that illegal Haiti immigrants had eaten pets in a small town of Ohio.

City officials told BBC Cerify This was not “there were no credible reports,” that actually happened.

Then a spokesman for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, called the statement “conspiracy theory … based on an element of racism.”