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We at Haïti Liberté are outraged but not surprised by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on Jun. 25 in the case of Mullin v. Doe to clear the way for the Trump administration to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of some 350,000 Haitians workers currently living in the U.S. (as well as that of some 6,000 Syrians).
It is just one more indication of the increasingly racist, lawless, and inhuman nature of the U.S. government’s conduct, especially under Trump, who has appointed three of the court’s nine justices.
The dissenting opinion, written by Justice Elena Kagan and joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, was absolutely clear and correct that then Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made her “determination” in November 2025 not to renew Haitians’ TPS based on the extreme racism that Trump has so clearly articulated.
“The majority [of Justices] claims to see no evidence that race played any role in the Haiti decision,” Kagan wrote. “But the evidence is there, plain to see, in the President’s statements.”
She then cited some of the “statements by the President so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print.” They include that Haitians are “eating the dogs [and] cats. They’re eating… the pets of the people that live [in Springfield, Ohio].” And: Haitians are eating “other things too that they’re not supposed to be.” And: Haitians in the U.S. “probably have AIDS.” And: Haiti is a “shithole country,” which is “filthy, dirty, [and] disgusting.” And: Haitian immigration is “like a death wish for our country.” And: Haitians are “poisoning the blood” of the U.S.. And: “Why is it we only take people from shithole countries” like “Haiti [and] Somalia?… Why cannot we have some people from Norway [and] Sweden?”
Kagan concludes: “The statements fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the President’s resolve to remove Haitians from this country.”
She also correctly points out that Noem did not follow the legal procedure stipulated in the TPS statute to determine whether it should be extended. She notes the irony that “the State Department continues to list [Haiti] as too dangerous for travel” by U.S. citizens and then adds that it “may be yet more perilous for a former inhabitant.”
She concludes the TPS statute “prevents the program from ending as it likely did here — without the required consultations about country conditions and, as to Haiti, with impermissible race-based considerations tainting the decision.”
The court’s ruling has opened the floodgates for the racist vitriol of many right-wing pundits. “Go home, get out! We know our country is better than yours!” screamed reactionary podcaster Megyn Kelly. “That’s because we filled it with our work ethic and our culture and our values! You being here only dilutes it for us, those who built it and live it! And half of you people, more than half, you won’t assimilate! We don’t want you! We don’t care if you’re offended. Get out! Go home! Go back to fucking Haiti!”
The U.S. government has made Haiti a living hell because the Haitian people have made their anti-imperialist sentiments clear in elections and demonstrations over the past three and a half decades. This has earned the country three coup d’états and three foreign military interventions, all Washington directed.
Now Haiti is under assault, just like its neighbors Venezuela and Cuba. The U.S. has deployed two mercenary armies, Erik Prince’s Vectus Global private contractors and the Marco Rubio-assembled so-called Gang Suppression Force. These two forces serve Washington and its puppet government of de facto Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé. With drones and death-squads patrolling in armored cars, these mercenaries are wantonly killing innocent civilians in poor neighborhoods where armed groups rule.
We will not hear a peep from Fils-Aimé about the return of TPS Haitians to Haiti, because he does not want to anger his bosses. In the short term, the deportations will cause great pain because they will cut off the billions of dollars in remittances that 350,000 Haitians used to send home. Furthermore, there are already food and housing shortages in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, which is home to many with TPS. Moreover, the United States, in complicity with the oligarchs, have destroyed all public enterprises, leaving the people unemployed, without electricity, and deprived of health care.
But in the long-run, ending TPS may backfire on Washington. TPS, along with Biden’s CHNV visa ended last year, created a release-valve on the revolutionary anger growing in the Haitian masses. With those programs gone, Haitians may be forced to carry out the revolutionary change in Haiti which is so long overdue.
Long live the Haitians’ struggle!
June 26, 2026
