Contributor: If Haiti has become more violent, why end Haitians’ temporary protected status in the U.S.?
Internal Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Temporary protected status for approximately 5,000 Haiti last month will end on September 2, five months before planned. The Trump administration stated the defective and contradictory assessments of the conditions in Haiti – this does not make mistakes and remains insecure.
Although it is a US Regional Court stopped Action – at least temporarily – and the original date of termination of February 3 will appeal the decision. The result of such a challenge may believe whether the courts are correctly represented and believed in the current events in Haiti.
Management Allegations “In general, the conditions of the country developed to the point where Haiti could return home.” Nothing can really be ahead. However, it has been entering and abandoning very few foreign countries lately, so it can be difficult to identify the truth.
In late April and early May, as a researcher of the Human Rights Monitoring Organization, I went to the Cap-Haïten city in the north. I am working in Haiti for the first time in a few years, violence prevented me from reaching the capital Port-au-Prince, where the airport has been under the ban on the Federal Aviation Administration since November. Gangs Spirit, Jetblue and American Airlines passenger jets on the flight.
In Cap-Haïtien, I speaking In recent months, dozens of people who escaped from the capital and other towns. Injuries caused by many murders, stray bullets and gang rape by members of the penalty group.
A 27-year-old woman, a student from Port-Aau-Prince, said to me, “We were walking towards school when we shoot in homes, people, everything that moves.” “We started to come back, but then [my sister] Guerline fell face face. He was shot behind his head, then I saw it [my cousin] Alice hit her chest. “The student crawled under a car he escaped from the capital at the beginning of January.
This widespread violence is the conditions that the Congress keeps in mind when it passed the temporary protected status law in 1990. He recognized a gap in protection for cases where a person could not be targeted for persecution on the basis of his beliefs or identities – for a person for a real risk for a person, for a real risk, for a real risk, for a real risk for a real risk, for a real risk, for a real risk. He turned to the ground.
When a management gives this appointment, it does this for a timely defined period that can be expanded according to the conditions in the country’s own country. For example, the status protected for people from Somalia First determined in 1991 And the last was expanded again until March 17, 2026.
Approximately 1.3 million people are displaced in Haiti. They escape from increasing violence by criminal groups He killed more than 5,600 people in 2024 – 23% more than 2023. Some analysts Suppose the country has the highest murder rate in the world. Crime groups control about 90% of the capital and expanded to other places.
Sapakçe, the Ministry of Internal Security accepts this fact to the public, Quote in the Federal Registration Notification “Common gang intensity” last Temporary protected situation. The government argues that the “collapse of governance ve cannot control the migration of Haiti, and therefore a constant assignment to protect people from there will not be“ national interests ..
Even evaluating this criterion is a bad idea to cancel the legal status of Haiti in the United States. Sending half a million people to Haiti will be extremely destabilizing and will resist the US interests – not to mention that their lives will be at risk.
The Trump administration did not take a meaningful action to improve Haiti’s situation. Multinational security support task led by Kenya, official It has been a year for a year, which was initially supported by the UN Security Council and initially by the United States. Yet because Staff, resource and financing serious problems, Haiti police desperately supported support. UN Secretary General António Guterres in late February recommended Steps to strengthen the mission, but the Security Council has not yet taken action.
. humanitarian situation It continues to deteriorate in Haiti. 6 million people need humanitarian help. Approximately 5.7 million acute hunger faces.
On June 26, only one day before Homeland Security’s attempt to end the protected status of the Haitians, Deputy Foreign Minister Christopher Landau defined The ongoing crisis in Haiti is “courageous”. “Haiti chaos,” he said, “The public order has collapsed.” Two days ago, the US Embassy in Haiti Giving A security warning that calls the US citizens in the country ası to leave as soon as possible ”. These, as claimed on June 27, are not the indicators that the conditions of the country have come to the point where the Haitians can return home ”.
The decision to terminate the temporary temporary protected status is completely dependent on reality. The Trump administration itself warned that Haiti remained dangerous and something has become something more in recent months. The US government should continue to maintain the brutal violence in their own countries.
Nathalle Cotrino is a senior American researcher in the Human Rights Monitoring Organization.
