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Mass arrests of Haitian immigrants by federal agents could begin as early as this week, according to federal documents regarding President Donald Trump\u2019s new directive to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling that Trump could end deportation protections for the community.<\/p>\n

A binding mandate was expected to be sent to lower courts on Monday regarding the high court\u2019s decision last month that held the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could strip 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians of their Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which is granted to migrants from certain countries facing disasters, armed conflicts, or other conditions that would put immigrants in danger if they were forced to return there.<\/p>\n

After the mandate is transmitted, Haitians across the country will lose their ability to legally live and work in the US, and the administration is reportedly already planning to send ICE agents into states including Ohio \u2014 where Haitian communities were targeted by Trump and Vice President JD Vance during the 2024 election \u2014 to quickly arrest and deport migrants to their crisis-stricken home country.<\/p>\n

Jean N\u00e9got Bonheur Delva, director-general of Haiti\u2019s National Office of Migration, told the Haitian Times <\/em>this month that according to the U.S. embassy in the Caribbean country, about 250 former TPS beneficiaries could be forced back to Haiti on flights each week.<\/p>\n

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, emphasized that the reported operation targeting Haitian communities is just the latest evidence that Trump is rounding up people who have been living and working in the U.S. for years, despite the White House\u2019s claims that it is going after \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of Haitians with TPS today entered the U.S. lawfully on humanitarian parole during the Biden administration, and then transitioned to TPS before their parole status expired,\u201d said Reichlin-Melnick. \u201cThose people have not spent a single day in violation of immigration law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The crisis in Haiti that necessitated TPS for people who arrived in the U.S. from the country, he added, \u201chasn\u2019t ended.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with widespread food insecurity, and large swathes of the country as well as transport routes are controlled by armed gangs. Violence intensified toward the end of 2025 \u201cand remains the dominant force shaping the daily life of Haitians,\u201d according to the United Nations, with more than 8,100 killings reported last year, and gangs have increasingly used children in violent attacks.<\/p>\n

Many healthcare facilities are \u201cbarely functioning,\u201d and extreme weather including hurricanes and droughts have worsened the humanitarian crisis. The country has also struggled to fully recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians.<\/p>\n

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Last week, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) spoke out about a Pentagon plan to strengthen coordination between the UN\u2019s Gang Suppression Task Force in Haiti and a private military contractor run by Erik Prince, a close ally of Trump\u2019s. The contractor, Vectus Global, has conducted drone strikes that have killed dozens of Haitian civilians.<\/p>\n

Those conditions are what DHS suggested Haitians should voluntarily return to, after having built lives in the U.S., when the agency told CBS News<\/em> on Monday that TPS has been used as a \u201cdefacto amnesty program\u201d and called on people who are about to lose protections that have been in place for 16 years to \u201cself-deport.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we would say now is it\u2019s closing time which means you don\u2019t have to go home, but you can\u2019t stay here,\u201d DHS told CBS News<\/em>. \u201cThe good news is it\u2019s not too late to get a $2,600 check and a free flight home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s majority asserted last month that Trump administration officials did not make \u201covertly racial\u201d comments about Haitians that would suggest the push to end TPS for the population was driven by \u201cracial animus\u201d \u2014 but U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in the District of Columbia came to the opposite conclusion earlier this year, saying then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had likely pushed to end TPS \u201cbecause of hostility to nonwhite immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reyes pointed out that Noem had not acknowledged the $1.3 billion Haitian TPS holders pay each year in taxes, and said Trump\u2019s racist comments about Haitians in the U.S. \u2014 including that they \u201cprobably have AIDS\u201d and that residents of the community in Springfield, Ohio were eating their white neighbors\u2019 pets \u2014 were rooted in \u201cracial animus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ICE directive to ramp up enforcement operations against \u201can ethnic group the president has repeatedly attacked is bigotry as official government policy,\u201d said Reichlin-Melnick.<\/p>\n

Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) called on members of Congress to sign on to a discharge petition she put forward for a vote on \u201cthe American Dream and Promise Act, to extend protections for TPS holders from Haiti and 16 other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn less than four days, House Democrats secured 210 signatures, including two Republicans, we just need eight more members of Congress to force a vote,\u201d said Garcia. \u201cTPS holders, you are not alone, we are with you!\u201d<\/p>\n

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