Haiti Immigration - TRUMP wants to end TPS for 50,000 Haitians in the USA

Bad news for Haitians in the Diaspora... President Donald Trump's immigration agency is recommending that the United States end temporary protection status (TPS) for 50,000 Haitians by next January 2018...


Father Gerard Jean-Juste - TPS For Haitians

These Haitians were allowed to remain in the United States following a series of natural disasters that have crippled Haiti over the years but that is coming to an end.

James McCament, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, concluded in a letter last week that conditions in Haiti have improved enough to end "temporary protected status" for Haitians, USA Today reports...

QUESTION: What does that mean for the hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the southern Haitian peninsula who lost everything in Hurricane Mathew last year and who are relying on their family in the United States for support?

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Simpson St Fort says...

Of course our president will want to do that to the Black Haitians while the US is making a fortune on Haiti.

Just on the visa application alone 1200/day at $160 per application for a maximum of 10% being issued.

I think the Haitian government just like the Brazilian government has recently done need to man up and ensure every foreigners coming to Haiti must apply for a visa as well. Haiti is a country just like every other country and it should respected and treated as one. The Monroe Doctrine stated that America belongs to Americans, in Haiti's case, when it comes to the Haitians' gold; YES, but when it comes to TPS it is a huge exception for

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Simpson Stfort says...

Of course our president will want to do that to the Black Haitians while the US is making a fortune on Haiti.

Just on the visa application alone 1200/day at $160 per application for a maximum of 10% being issued.

I think the Haitian government just like the Brazilian government has recently done need to man up and ensure every foreigners coming to Haiti must apply for a visa as well. Haiti is a country just like every other country and it should respected and treated as one. The Monroe Doctrine stated that America belongs to Americans, in Haiti's case, when it comes to the Haitians' gold; YES, but when it comes to TPS it is a huge exception for

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