The Supreme Court ruled that yes, the Trump administration can end Temporary Protected Status for around 350,000 Haitians, who've enjoyed TPS since January 2010. That's 16 years of "temporary" status. Those Haitians who escaped the aftermath of an earthquake shouldn't have gotten comfortable, but why not, when administration after administration keeps extending that initial 18-month period for a decade and a half?
Here's a Haitian man being fitted with an ankle monitor by ICE.
NOW: Haitian man collapses on the ground in tears as he is fitted with an ankle monitor by ICE office in Blue Ash Ohio. TPS holders are checking in at the location as the protective status ended pic.twitter.com/xCLAXh9ljq
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) August 9, 2026
Why not just deport him? Geraldo Rivera claims that deporting Haitians to their home country is "sending them straight to hell."
Expelling Haitian immigrants is sending them straight to hell.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) August 9, 2026
What happened to "Haiti Is Already Great"?
When you find out the free ride is over.
— Steadfast (@MForbes) August 9, 2026
Reminder that this guy was given a choice of a plane ticket home and $2,600 or the ankle monitor and he chose the ankle monitor. pic.twitter.com/jpzskBMbgy
— Squiggles (@heisei_ramen) August 10, 2026
Good thing they had a camera ready to go, amiright?
— Dissident Landman (@DissLandman) August 10, 2026
Look at how horrified he is at the prospect of being sent back to live among his own people.
— AngryWyteMan (@AngryWyteMan) August 9, 2026
That is how horrified I am at the prospect of his people coming here.
They all knew it was temporary and offered no path to citizenship. They have been here too long.
— Robin (@RobinYvarra) August 9, 2026
Question, why give him the ankle monitor? ICE knows where he is, found him, talked to him. Why not just deport him right then and there?
— Lowest Common Idiots (@LowestComIdiots) August 9, 2026
Why waste the time of doing this?
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He shouldn’t need an ankle monitor on his plane back to Haiti
— Anders of Normandy 🌲🐢 (@AndersNormandy) August 10, 2026
He should be happy. Haiti is a great country. Conan O'Brien said so.
— Ghost of Covid Past (@ttxwe) August 9, 2026
Why are they not deporting him? Temporary means temporary. Time for him to make Haiti great.
— TTL (@TTL_inc) August 9, 2026
The worst mistake that I ever made in my life was because I let myself be moved by someone crying.
— Kurt Belgard MD (@Kurtbelgard) August 10, 2026
— Angie 👑 (@AngieNC3) August 9, 2026
Tell him we're sorry that all those delays led him to believe that "temporary" meant "permanent".
— SpeakEasyJG (@SpeakeasyJG) August 10, 2026
If anything, the government's to blame for extending TPS over and over again. President Barack Obama declared it for 18 months — that should have been it.
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