The Trump administration successfully ended Temporary Protected Status (or TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians – people who’d had fled violence and upheaval in their home country.
The Obama administration first offered TPS to Haitians after a devastating earthquake struck the country in 2010. Then, the Biden administration extended the protections due to gang violence. But Donald Trump had other plans for his second term: mass deportations.
What’s the reality on the ground in Haiti? And what’s the impacts are Trump’s deportation operations having on Haitians communities across the U.S.?
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