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From Springfield, Ohio, to the Supreme Court: A Pastor’s Fight to Protect TPS for Haitians

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week on President Trump’s push to strip temporary protected status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians living in the United States. The TPS program grants protection from deportation and work authorization to immigrants whose home countries are deemed unsafe to return to, most often because of war or natural disaster. The case could ultimately have ramifications for more than 1 million TPS holders from over a dozen countries. TPS holders from Haiti and Syria say their countries remain unsafe and that DHS did not follow proper procedure. The lawsuit brought by Haitian TPS holders also accuses the administration of being motivated by racism — an allegation supported by a lower court ruling in February. “Haiti is still in bad shape, and [TPS holders] cannot return there. So, you can imagine now the uncertainty that they live with on a daily basis,” says Vilès Dorsainvil, a plaintiff in Trump v. Miot, the case brought by Haitian TPS holders. Dorsainvil is the co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio. President Trump targeted the Haitian community in Springfield in 2024, falsely saying Haitian residents were eating pet dogs and cats. “We’ve been scapegoated as a community,” says Dorsainvil.

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Jul 14, 2025

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U.N.: Nearly 5,000 Haitians Killed over Nine Months Amid Ongoing Gang Violence

A new U.N. report warns nearly 5,000 people were killed in Haiti in just the past nine months. Gang violence has surged beyond the capital of Port-au-Prince. The U.N. is urging the international community to support the Kenya-led security mission currently deployed in Haiti and to curb the flow of firearms into the country. U.N. human rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani spoke on Friday. Ravina Shamdasani: “Caught in the middle of this unending horror story are the Haitian people, who are at the mercy of horrific violence by gangs and exposed to human rights violations from the security forces, as well as abuses by the so-called self-defense groups.”

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