"President Trump has made-freely, at times even boastfully-several derogatory statements about Haitians and other nonwhite foreigners. To start, he has repeatedly invoked racist tropes of national purity, declaring that "illegal immigrants"-a category he wrongly assigns to Haitian TPS holders-are "poisoning the blood" of America. About two weeks after the Termination, he again described Haiti as a "filthy, dirty, [and] disgusting" "shithole country.""
"Remember the grotesque lie, spread by the current president and vice president, about the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio? This was the pretext for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's unconscionable removal of Temporary Protective Status that had been granted to Haitian migrants. Typically, at least of this administration, Noem's order disregarded all manner of legal protocols and procedures in a meat-ax fashion. Enter federal District Judge Ana Reyes, who Monday temporarily reinstated TPS for Haitians pending an ongoing litigation."
Temporary Protective Status for Haitian migrants was terminated by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem using procedures described as disregarding legal protocols. The termination relied in part on a false pretext about the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio. Federal District Judge Ana Reyes temporarily reinstated TPS for Haitians pending ongoing litigation. President Trump repeatedly made derogatory statements about Haitians and other nonwhite foreigners, invoking racialized tropes and calling Haiti a "shithole country" and claiming immigrants were "poisoning the blood" of America. Plaintiffs identify statements by Secretary Noem describing Haitians as "leeches" and "entitlement junkies," reinforcing an inference of racial animus.
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