In another victory for American taxpayers and border security, Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has rescinded Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than half a million Haitian illegal aliens.
The order follows Noem’s revocation of TPS for almost 400,000 Venezuelans, many of them rapists and murderers.
Without TPS, the Haitians are subject to immediate deportation, which means the Democratic Party is on the verge of losing what could have been almost a million voters had they become citizens.
TPS has been a scam for some time, and the Biden administration, via Noem’s predecessor, unindicted visa fraudster Alejandro Mayorkas, abused it to keep illegal aliens in the country.
The goal: Turn them into Democratic voters. That won’t happen — provided that Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounds up and deports them.
“For decades the TPS system has been exploited and abused,” DHS said:
For example, Haiti has been designated for TPS since 2010. The data shows each extension of the country’s TPS designation allowed more Haitian nationals, even those who entered the U.S. illegally, to qualify for legal protected status.
In May of 2011, DHS estimated that 57,000 Haitians were eligible to register for TPS. In August 2021, DHS estimated that 155,000 Haitians were eligible under the new designation. And by July 2024, the estimate skyrocketed to 520,694.
A DHS spokesman observed that Mayorkas and President Joe Biden tried “to tie the hands of the Trump administration by extending Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status by 18 months — far longer than justified or necessary.”
“Abused and exploited by illegal aliens for decades,” the spokesman said, TPS is now what it should be: “temporary.”
TPS for the Haitians ends in August.
In giving the Haitians TPS, Noem’s order says, Mayorkas “failed to evaluate whether ‘permitting the aliens to remain temporarily in the United States’ is not ‘contrary to the national interest of the United States.’”
Amazingly, based on its “extraordinary and temporary conditions,” TPS for Haitians goes back 15 years, the order says:
Haiti was initially designated in January 2010 on the basis of extraordinary and temporary conditions stemming from an earthquake. DHS estimated at the time that there were 100,000 to 200,000 Haitians in the United States who would be eligible.
Following the initial designation, DHS extended the TPS designation for Haiti and newly designated Haiti based on “extraordinary and temporary conditions” numerous times between 2011 and 2018.
In 2018, Trump ended TPS for the Haitians, which invited the usual lawfare from the far Left.
Beginning in 2021, Mayorkas repeatedly extended TPS because of the same “extraordinary and temporary conditions” that seem neither “extraordinary” nor “temporary.”
“DHS concluded, without any support in the record, that allowing Haitian nationals who would qualify for TPS to remain in the country was not contrary to the national interest, as required by the statute,” Noem’s order says.
From 2011 through 2024, when Mayorkas last extended TPS, the number of Haitians eligible for TPS exploded from 57,000 to 520,694.
The order offers in great detail the history of TPS for Haitians.
As is customary, the usual voices are caterwauling about what dangers the Haitians face if they return to the land whence they came.
“Donald Trump’s decision to rip away protections for Haitians who are legally in the United States is shameful. Haiti is not safe right now and Haitians with TPS are here legally after fleeing unfathomable violence and instability,” said Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts:
These individuals have legal status and are actively contributing to our communities, something I’ve seen firsthand in Massachusetts. Revoking TPS for Haitians will harm up to half a million of our neighbors and devastate communities. The United States made a promise to these families, and the President should honor that promise and reverse this decision immediately.
In fact, the U.S. did not promise the Haitians anything, for TPS is temporary.
CBS News ran off to Haiti’s migration director, Jean Negot Bonheur Delva.
The only deportees so far are 21 slated for removal during the Biden administration, he told the hate-Trump network. Nine flights deposited deportees in Haiti in 2024.
“Delva worried about the strain it would cause to send people back to a country still reeling from violence and where more than one million people are homeless because of gang violence,” CBS continued:
“It’s very sad that people who left Haiti to look for a better life elsewhere … will come back,” said Delva. “With the insecurity problem, the lack of resources, they will be miserable.”
More than 5,600 people were reported killed last year in Haiti, according to the U.N.
Many of those displaced are living in severely overcrowded makeshift shelters including abandoned government buildings where rapes are becoming increasingly common.
Gangs control 85% of Haiti’s capital and have launched new attacks to seize control of even more territory. Recent massacres have claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians.
Why the returning illegals won’t enrich their native land culturally and economically by becoming entrepreneurs with “strong family values” neither CBS nor Delva explained.
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, a Democratic member of the New York Assembly, complained that Noem’s order is “inhumane.”
The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Hermelyn said the streets of Haiti are running with blood.
Noem is “cutting off a lifeline for Haitians facing a literal life-or-death situation,” she said.
She also claimed the decision is “cruel” and “racially-motivated.”
On the other hand, the cats and wild avian fauna in Springfield, Ohio, are likely rejoicing in Noem’s order.
Last week, Noem ended TPS for 348,202 illegal Venezuelans.
Conditions in the socialist kleptocracy are no longer unsafe, and Noem determined that “it is contrary to the national interest to permit the covered Venezuelan nationals to remain temporarily in the United States.”
Noem’s two orders will send 868,896 illegal aliens back home where they belong if ICE deports them all.