Washington claims Haiti is safe — while telling Americans to get out
Politics | The Haitian Pulse Editorial Team | June 28, 2025
Tags: TPS, U.S.-Haiti policy, diaspora, political corruption, immigration
A Deadly Contradiction in U.S. Policy
On one hand, the Trump administration has declared that Haiti is “safe” enough to send back over 500,000 Haitians under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). On the other hand, the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince recently issued an emergency alert urging American citizens to evacuate the country due to “deteriorating security conditions.”
“For the U.S. to claim Haiti is secure enough for deportations while urging its own citizens to flee is not just contradictory — it’s dangerous and disgracefully hypocritical.”
This isn’t just a diplomatic misstep. It’s a direct threat to the lives of thousands who fled Haiti precisely because the country became unlivable.
The Human Cost of a Political Game
Over 5,600 people were killed in Haiti last year due to gang violence — a staggering rise from the already horrific numbers of 2023. In just the first five months of 2025, over 2,600 people have been killed, including children. Public institutions are failing. The airport operates sporadically. Armed groups control swaths of the capital. The country is collapsing.
“Haiti is not recovering — it is unraveling. And sending people back into that chaos is a humanitarian failure.”
Haitian Leaders Fueling the Illusion
While Washington spins one narrative, Port-au-Prince is selling another. In a desperate attempt to legitimize its crumbling regime, the Haitian government has spent millions on American lobbyists to paint a false picture of “stability” and “progress” — all to hold on to power and impose an election that the population is neither ready for nor safe enough to participate in.
“This isn’t diplomacy — it’s deception dressed as stability, funded by desperation.”
The goal isn’t to protect Haitians. It’s to preserve elite political control at all costs, even if that means lying to foreign governments and sacrificing the lives of their own people.
Abandoning the Diaspora
TPS holders have contributed to American communities for over a decade. Many have families, jobs, homes — and now face being forced back into a country that can’t protect them.
Meanwhile, the same administration ending TPS has failed to stop the flow of illegal firearms from U.S. ports into Haiti — weapons that fuel the very gangs responsible for the violence.
“You can’t fund the fire and then pretend to rescue the victims — especially when you’re pushing them back into the flames.”
The Verdict
The end of TPS for Haitians is more than a bureaucratic shift. It’s a betrayal of logic, morality, and humanity. It’s also a reflection of a broken immigration system driven by ideology instead of evidence — and of a Haitian government that is more concerned with preserving power than protecting people.
History will remember this moment — and the silence that surrounded it — with shame.
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