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While much of the media’s focus around Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids and deportations has been on our current government’s obsession with ridding this country of Latinos, it’s important to remember that the Haitian community continues to to be one of the most vilified groups. Many of these community members are Black and here under Temporary Protected Status. By now we are all aware of how a certain orange person in DC feels about Black folks.
On June 27, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a press release titled “DHS Terminates Haiti TPS, Encourages Haitia