{"id":2112,"date":"2026-02-04T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:00:16","slug":"federal-judge-calls-out-the-racism-of-trump-admins-plan-to-end-tps-for-haitians-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Calls Out the Racism of Trump Admin\u2019s Plan to End TPS for Haitians \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"


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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in New York.<\/span>Yuki Iwamura\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A federal judge<\/span> issued a last-minute temporary stay on Monday to block the Trump administration\u2019s attempt to remove temporary legal protections for up to 350,000 Haitian immigrants across the United States.<\/p>\n

In a brutal 83-page takedown<\/a>, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the US District Court for DC specifically laid into a December X post from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that claimed foreign \u201ckillers, leeches, and entitlement junkies\u201d are ruining the vision of the founding fathers. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders,\u201d Reyes wrote. \u201cThey are not, it emerges, \u2018killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.\u2019 They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer\u2019s disease, Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id., and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I just met with the President. <\/p>\n

I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. <\/p>\n

Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom\u2014not for foreign\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cOne of those (her word) \u2018damn\u2019 countries is Haiti,\u201d Reyes continued. \u201cThree days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti\u2019s TPS designation as of February 3, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reyes said that it was therefore \u201csubstantially likely\u201d that Noem had moved to end TPS status for Haitians due to \u201chostility to nonwhite immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Temporary Protected Status is a designation that allows people who have moved to the US from countries enduring ongoing armed conflicts, environmental disasters, or epidemics to legally work and reside in the US. It was set to expire on Tuesday, meaning many Haitian immigrants who came to the US legally would be subject to deportation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of March 2025, the US provides TPS protections to roughly 330,000 Haitians, according to the National Immigration Forum<\/a>. Former President Barack Obama designated Haiti for TPS after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck the country in January 2010, in which an estimated<\/a> 220,000 people died and over 300,000 were injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Isabela Dias wrote<\/a> last year: \u201cThe Trump administration has moved<\/a> to<\/a> end<\/a> TPS for Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans and canceled<\/a> a humanitarian parole initiative, known as CHNV, that had allowed more than 500,000 migrants from four countries, including Venezuela, to come to the United States and work for up to two years.\u201d In fact, as Reyes notes, \u201cNoem has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk\u2014twelve countries up, twelve countries down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bigotry toward immigrants has long been a cornerstone for Donald Trump<\/a> and his followers<\/a>. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump repeated unfounded claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating other residents\u2019 pets. The rhetoric resulted in dozens of bomb threats [link please]. Springfield, a city with fewer <\/strong>than 60,000<\/a>, is home to about 15,000 Haitians<\/a>. In 2018, Trump called<\/a> Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations \u201cshithole<\/a>\u201d countries.<\/p>\n

Since Reyes\u2019 ruling, Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the DHS, posted<\/a> on X that the department would take the case to the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHaiti\u2019s TPS was granted following an earthquake that took place over 15 years ago, it was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that\u2019s how previous administrations have used it for decades,\u201d McLaughlin wrote. \u201cTemporary means temporary and the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n