The Trump administration is using Haiti's "widespread" gang violence, along with the State Department's recent decision to designate several of the country's most powerful armed groups as "foreign terrorists,

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said allowing Haitians to stay in the country was against the “national interest.” The Trump administration announced an end to temporary legal protections for Haitian migrants in the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of people at risk of deportation.

The United States State Department says it is ending the TPS of over 500,000 Haitians without a reason why, contradicting its own warnings