Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Office has partnered Last month temporarily protected conditions of about 500,000 Haitians expire on September 2, five months later than planned. The Trump administration has a cited error and conflicting assessments of Haiti conditions – that, no error, remain unsafe.
Although a district court in the US ceased The action – at least temporarily – and returns the original end date on February 3, the administration is likely to challenge the rule. The result of such a challenge may have stopped when the courts receive and believe that an accurate representation of the present events in Haiti.
For the record:
9:28 AM July 18, 2025An earlier version of this article is wrong with the number of Haitians to be affected by a change in temporary protected status. It is 500,000, not 5,000.
The administration Commit That “total condition, country conditions have progressed to the point where Haitians return home safely at home.” Nothing can still be further from the truth. But only a few outsiders entered and out of the country lately, so the truth can be difficult to determine.
In late April and early May, as an researcher for the view of human rights, I traveled to the northern town of Cap-Haïtien. For the first time in many years I work in Haiti, violence prevents me from reaching the capital, port-au-prince, where the airport remains under the Federal Aviation Administration ban since November when Gangs shot spiritual spirit, jetblue and american airlines jets to fly.
In Cap-Haïtien, I SAY With many people who turn off capital and other towns in recent months. Many sharing accounts of murder, damage from stray bullets and gangs are raped by members of the criminal group.
“We walked to school when we saw the bandits shooting houses, with people, at all,” a four-year-old student, a port-au-prince student, told me. “We started to run, but that if (my brother) Guerline fell. He was shot at the back of the head, then I saw (my cousin) Alice shot in the chest.” Student flows at the bottom of a car, where he hides for hours. He fled to the capital in January.
This rampant violence is precisely the Sort of Conditions Congress had in mind when it passed the temporary protected status law in 1990. It recognized a gap in protection for situations in which a person might not be able to establish for persecution on the basis of their beliefs or identity – the standard for Permanent asylum claims – but rather when a person’s life is at real risk because of high levels of generalized violence that make it too dangerous for anyone to be returned to the place.
If an administration has given this call, it is made for a mean time, which can be expanded based on country’s country’s country conditions. For example, protected status for people from Somalia is first appointed in 1991 And often enlarged, most recent to March 17, 2026.
Almost 1.3 million people are internal transfer to Haiti. They have been established to increase violence to criminal groups Killed by more than 5,600 people in 2024 – 23% more than 2023. Some Analysts Say the country has the highest homicide rates in the world. Criminal groups control almost 90% of the capital and extended to other places.
Slices, the Department of Homeland Security in the public thought of this fact, Telling a Federal Registration Notice “The widespread gang law” as a reason for Finally temporarily protected condition. The government argues that a “management collapse” makes Haiti do not control migration, and therefore a continuous call to protect people who are not in the “National Inters” in the United States.
Even judging that criterion alone, the joke of the legal state of the US Haitians is a bad idea. Shipping half a million people to Haiti well in progress and counter in US interests – not to discuss their life.
Trump administration has no significant action to improve Haiti’s condition. The Missional Security Security Security Security Mission, APPROVED Through the UN Security Council and initially supported in the United States, in the land of one year. more Because of Severe lack of staff, resources and funds, it fails to give the support of Haitian police in need. In late February, UN Secretary-General António Gerteres recommend Steps to strengthen the mission, but the security council has not yet acted.
the Humanitarian situation in Haiti continues to get worse. Approximately 6 million people need humanitarian assistance. Nearly 5.7 million faces of intense hunger.
On June 26, only one day before the homeland’s attempt at the end of Haitians’ protection status, representative Secretary of State Christopher Landau defines The ongoing Haiti crisis as “distressing.” He said “The public command has all but crushed” as “Haiti fell in chaos.” Two days ago, the US Embassy in Haiti issued A security alert encourages us US citizens to the country to “leave as soon as possible.” These are not signs that “country conditions have progressed to the point where Haitians can return home safely,” as claiming Homeland Security on June 27.
The decision-ending end of the temporary protected state is completely disconnected from reality. The administration of Trump itself warns that Haiti remains dangerous – and if anything turned out to be more than the current months. The US government should continue to protect Haitians living in the United States not thrown into the brutal violence that spreads their homeland.
Nathalye Cotrino is a senior American researcher in Human Rights Watch.
