07/28/2026
This Isn’t Immigration Enforcement. It’s the Punishment of Victims.
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Temporary Protected Status for roughly 348,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States expired, ending federal deportation protections and, for many, work authorization.
It didn’t happen by accident. It didn’t happen because Haiti is suddenly safe. It happened because the Trump administration executed a deliberate, methodical, three-step campaign to strip every legal protection the United States has ever extended to Haitian nationals—and then engineered a Supreme Court ruling to ensure no court could ever stop them.
I’ve been practicing immigration law for over two decades. I’ve seen hard cases. I’ve seen unjust outcomes. But what has been done to the Haitian community is something different: it is the systematic punishment of victims for the crimes of their....
Read the full article below
https://smaimmigration.com/steve-maggi/350000-haitians-out-of-status-how-america-completed-its-systematic-dismantling-of-every-protection-it-ever-gave-haiti/
