Emergency! Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 340,000 Haitian TPS holders expires on Tuesday, February 3rd. It has already been terminated for refugees from Venezuela and Somalia, and is in danger of being terminated for refugees from Myanmar’s repressive military regime, among other countries. Unless the motion for a stay is granted on Feb. 2nd, Haitian TPS holders could lose their work permits and be confronted by ICE thugs for detention and deportation starting February 4.
TPS is supposed to protect people from returning to unsafe conditions in their home countries. Kristi Noem criminally lied when she designated it was safe for Haitians to return to their country even though since the 2004 US-orchestrated coup against the democratic government of President Aristide, Haiti has been completely destabilized under US/UN occupation. A US State Department travel advisory even warns, “Do not travel to Haiti due to kidnapping, crime, terrorist activity, civil unrest and limited healthcare.”
In today’s Haiti, paramilitary death squads armed with weapons from the United States control large parts of the country, burning, raping and terrorizing the population. Over half the population – 5.7 million Haitians – are facing acute food insecurity; 1.4 million are internally displaced due to violence. This is the situation Donald Trump and Kristi Noem want to force hundreds of thousands of Haitians to return to. Ending TPS for Haitian refugees is just as violent an attack on human rights as ICE raids across the US. It’s a matter of life and death.
Fight Back! Join us on Feb. 2nd at 4pm Rally & Protest at the San Francisco Immigration Court, 100 Montgomery St, San Francisco
Protect TPS for Haiti and all TPS countries
End ICE attacks on Migrants! Abolish ICE!
Stop the war on Venezuela and all wars for regime change
ICE attacks on refugees and ending TPS: two arms of the same anti-Black, anti-immigrant policies
Sponsored by Haiti Action Committee, Myanmar Student Union, NorCal TPS Coalition and Community Liberation Programs
