Trump Ends Deportation Protections for 500,000 Haitian Nationals

Trump Ends Deportation Protections for 500,000 Haitian Nationals

Sarah Arnold 

     

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In a bold move that has sparked heated debate, President Donald Trump officially canceled deportation protections for over half a million Haitian nationals living in the United States. The decision ends the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) granted to Haitians by the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It was previously used to “exploit” the asylum system to protect illegal aliens from deportation, according to the Trump administration. 

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defended the decision by emphasizing that the policy was being restored to its original, temporary purpose. She argued that the program had been misused and abused over time, and it was necessary to rein in its scope after the Biden administration exploited it. Noem expressed her commitment to ensuring that the TPS program is applied in a way that aligns with its intended objectives. This is part of the president's sweeping effort to make good on campaign promises and carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants. 

“For decades, the TPS system has been exploited and abused," the DHS said in the statement. ”For example, Haiti has been designated for TPS since 2010. The data shows each extension of the country's TPS designation allowed more Haitian nationals, even those who entered the U.S. illegally, to qualify for legal protected status.”

“Biden and [former DHS Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas attempted to tie the hands of the Trump administration by extending Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status by 18 months—far longer than justified or necessary,” a DHS spokesperson said. “We are returning integrity to the TPS system, which has been abused and exploited by illegal aliens for decades. President Trump and Secretary Noem are returning TPS to its original status: temporary.”

The DHS stated that approximately 57,000 Haitians were eligible for TPS protections as of 2011, but by July 2024, that number had increased to 520,694.

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Former President George H.W. Bush established the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program to assist immigrants fleeing countries experiencing widespread humanitarian crises. The DHS determines eligibility. During former President Joe Biden’s administration, the program was extended to over one million migrants, including those from Venezuela, El Salvador, and Ukraine.

JD Vance Delivers Blistering Response to Historian on Ukraine That Has People Cheering

JD Vance Delivers Blistering Response to Historian on Ukraine That Has People Cheering

By Nick Arama 

    

AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

President Donald Trump is trying to work toward peace in Ukraine. 

Folks on the left seem content with continual war, with us pouring out support for Ukraine with no end in sight, with seemingly no accounting. And if you objected to it or wanted more of an accounting, it was somehow supporting Russia. You can believe Russia's invasion was wrong and still see that that this can't go on without a resolution. 

But now under Trump we're finally addressing that question and talking about options that Biden and many in Congress just didn't want to ever address. 

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The Trump team got an objection over the approach from historian and Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson, citing George H.W. Bush's statement about the invasion of Kuwait, "This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait." 

Vice President JD Vance had a blistering response. 

This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say. 

For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office; second, that neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. This was true three years ago, it was true two years ago, it was true last year, and it is true today. 

And for three years, the concerns of people who were obviously right were ignored. What is Niall's actual plan for Ukraine? Another aid package? Is he aware of the reality on the ground, of the numerical advantage of the Russians, of the depleted stock of the Europeans or their even more depleted industrial base? 

Instead, he quotes from a book about George HW Bush from a different historical period and a different conflict. That's another currency of these people: reliance on irrelevant history.  

President Trump is dealing with reality, which means dealing with facts. 

And here are some facts:

Number one, while our Western European allies' security has benefitted greatly from the generosity of the United States, they pursue domestic policies (on migration and censorship) that offend the sensibilities of most Americans and defense policies that assume continued over-reliance. 

Number two, Russians have a massive numerical advantage in manpower and weapons in Ukraine, and that advantage will persist regardless of further Western aid packages. Again, the aid is *currently* flowing. 

Number three, the United States retains substantial leverage over both parties to the conflict. 

Number four, ending the conflict requires talking to the people involved in starting it and maintaining it. 

Number five, the conflict has placed--and continues to place--stress on tools of American statecraft, from military stockpiles to sanctions (and so much else). We believe the continued conflict is bad for Russia, bad for Ukraine, and bad for Europe. But most importantly, it is bad for the United States. 

Given the above facts, we must pursue peace, and we must pursue it now. President Trump ran on this, he won on this, and he is right about this. It is lazy, ahistorical nonsense to attack as "appeasement" every acknowledgment that America's interest must account for the realities of the conflict. 

That interest--not moralisms or historical illiteracy--will guide President Trump's policy in the weeks to come. 

And thank God for that.

Finally, there's impetus for change and a real end to the conflict, one that puts our interests first but also is ultimately better for Europe. 

We went into this with Europe thinking back in 2018 that we should pay for their defense unequally with NATO, with them laughing at Trump when he criticized them for still buying oil from Russia. That's part of the reason that led to the invasion, along with the weakness and missteps of Biden. There are solutions, and the fact that the Trump team is seeking them doesn't mean they are appeasing Russia. 

People cheered Vance's statement. 

David Limbaugh called it "one for the ages."

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said: 

Amen. Thank goodness we have a President and Vice President who put America first and acknowledged what has always been the reality in Ukraine. We should pursue a peaceful and realistic outcome, not death, debt, and war.

White House reporter Charlie Spiering said Ferguson "laments the loss of Republican neocons like George H.W. Bush." 

Ferguson's response was interesting as he assured Vance that he had supported Trump and Vance and that he agreed with Vance on most of what he said, including his speech in Munich about Europe and the five points he mentioned above. 

What Ferguson said he took issue with was he thought they were conceding too much off the bat, based on what he was reading, including taking NATO membership off the table, conceding territory, as well as a peacekeeping force that could include China. 

I earnestly hope that the Trump administration can negotiate an end to this war. But if we end up with a peace that dooms Ukraine first to partition and then to some future invasion, it will be a sorry outcome. To repeat, I agreed with most of your criticisms of Europe at Munich. I would add that the Europeans have talked for “strategic autonomy” for too long without making a serious attempt to achieve it.

But you and President Trump campaigned last year with a slogan that dates back even further than George H.W. Bush’s words that I quoted. That phrase was “peace through strength.”

I would note a few things. Ferguson is assessing things based in part on what he is reading. He's not aware of what's going on in the private discussions. 

Further, I think Trump has already made his "peace through strength" clear. 

Let's review: 

A. He dropped bombs on the heads of Russian contractors in Syria when they fired on a U.S. position. 

B. He smoked Qasem Soleimani for attacks on Americans, which is not just a message to Iran but to its partner Russia. 

C. He has imposed all kinds of sanctions on Russia and booted Russians out of embassies when they got out of line. 

Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine because he knew Biden was weak. 

Both Putin and China know Trump is a different kettle of fish, and puts our interests first. 

Now Vance has just driven that home as well.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/02/20/jd-vance-post-on-ukraine-n2185793?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

You Don’t Clean Up Four Years of Spilled Slime In One Month

You Don’t Clean Up Four Years of Spilled Slime In One Month

Mark Lewis

Pool via AP

Pete Buttigieg, who spent four totally incompetent, useless years drawing a salary at taxpayers’ expense for doing nothing for the country as Transportation Secretary (he did find time to take several weeks “maternity” leave, or “paternity” leave, or “it” leave, whatever people like him call it), recently had the unmitigated gall to complain on “X” that “the flying public needs answers.  How many FAA personnel were just fired?  What positions?  And why?”  Well, fortunately, the American people fired this intolerable, inept bozo and his senile boss and put some intelligent, decent, competent people in as replacements.  If Buttigieg had done what Trump and his people are—rightly—doing, maybe the country’s transportation system wouldn’t be the total wreck it is now.

But, of course, nothing is ever the Left’s fault. THEY know how to govern, but the American people are too stupid to realize it. So, they’ll eventually (if they can) just force themselves on the American people through a totalitarian government.  And shoot anybody who complains about the massive misery, poverty, inflation, and oppression they cause. That’s the way the Left has operated the past 100 years and still operates in places like Cuba, China, and North Korea. And increasingly in Europe.  Will we ever learn?  I doubt it.  Some people can remember yesterday, but take them back over a week, and their minds are a complete fog of ignorance and illogic.

Democrats are blaming Donald Trump for every bad thing that is happening now, including planes flipping over in Canada. This is to be expected, as the Marxist, Leftist, totalitarian radicals are back on their heels, reeling and crying, watching their beloved totalitarian government programs being slowly gutted and dismantled by a man who largely believes in the American dream and American values of economizing and frugal government.  But the intelligent know that Mr. Trump can’t be faulted for air crashes or virtually anything else currently going on in America.  Not yet, at least.  He’s only been in office a month. A massive spilled slime slick takes time to clean up, and everybody but Leftists knows it.

America just completed four years of the most bungling, radical, corrupt, godless, and unsuccessful administration in its history. 12 of the last 16, if you want to include the Obama years, which, indeed, should be included because Biden was simply an extension, a mentally dead and morally depraved puppet of probably the most evil President America has ever had, Barack Obama.  Obama and Biden defecated all over the country and the world non-stop for twelve years, and the stink still exists, almost overpoweringly.  Their Marxist, atheistic, godless policies are simply wrong.  They will not work. That has been proven countless times in history, especially over the past century.  But, as Hegel once said, “History teaches us that men learn nothing from history.”

As the title of this article says, four years (twelve) of spilled slime cannot be cleansed in one month.  Trump did a lot of good in his first four years but not nearly enough; indeed, he did almost nothing to “drain the swamp.”  But he appears to have learned from first-term shock; his eyes are now open to some of the utter horrors the Left has and is perpetuating on Americans, and now there is gravity, yea, even urgency to his actions.  He is taking this “swamp draining” stuff seriously, and is pursuing it with a vengeance.

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But it will take time. The proverbial “Rome wasn’t built in a day” is self-evident, and America won’t be rebuilt, and the garbage left by Obama and Biden won’t be swept clean in a day, either.  There were simply too many Pete Buttigieg in the last administration, all with the singular goal of destroying traditional, successful, individualistic America and turning the country into another communist China. They almost succeeded.  With another four years, they might have done so. Thankfully, we stopped them—at least for the moment.

For the moment.  We must never forget that 75 million people voted for the most frightening, horrifying, anti- and unAmerican candidate ever offered to the people as a Presidential candidate.  Those 75 million people aren’t starting out as friends and supporters of Donald Trump. Mr. Trump further needs to realize the deeper aspects of America’s sicknesses, that politics is only one part of the country, and that the greatest issue he faces is a moral depravity that is deep and very rotten. For a nation that has literally millions of people who believe that women have the right to murder their own babies, that men can become women simply by saying they are, that rejects the God-established sanctity of the nuclear family, that children can be mutilated for the sexual pleasure of perverts, that a nation need not have any borders, that millions of people are “entitled” to live off the hard work of others—these are moral issues and can never be fully solved by political processes.  Yea, evil will never be completely eradicated from this earth.  But we certainly won’t if we refuse to admit its existence and fight against it.

The Left is desperate and blaming Trump for everything it can.  But let’s hope most people will recognize the fallacy of this. The four (twelve) years of spilled slime thing. Hold the trigger down, Mr. Trump.

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/02/22/you-dont-clean-up-four-years-of-spilled-slime-in-one-month-n2652634?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Duffy Announces Review of California's High-Speed Rail Boondoggle

Duffy Announces Review of California's High-Speed Rail Boondoggle

Leah Barkoukis | 

     

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced California’s high-speed rail boondoggle will undergo a review to determine whether about $4 billion in federal funds should continue to go toward the project. 

The announcement came after California Republicans requested the federal government to step in and investigate the project. 

"We're going to look at whether the California High Speed Rail Authority has actually complied with the agreements that they've signed with the federal government," Duffy said. "We can't just say we're going to give money and then not hold states accountable to how they spend that money."

The entire San Francisco to Los Angeles project was initially supposed to be completed by 2020 and cost $33 billion. Today, the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment alone would cost more than the original total. The latest estimate for San Francisco to Los Angeles is $106 billion — more than three times the original cost estimate.[...]

As recently noted by the California High-Speed Rail Office of the Inspector General, just the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment has a funding gap of at least $6.5 billion. That gap remains despite California being due to receive over $4 billion from the Biden Administration. The CHSRA Inspector General also found that even this limited project, with barely 2 million in annual projected ridership because it fails to connect California’s larger cities, is unlikely to be completed by 2033.

In March of 2023, the CHSRA Peer Review Group, charged with evaluating CHSRA’s funding plans, reported an “unfunded gap of $92.6 billion to $103.1 billion between estimated costs and known State and Federal funding” for the San Francisco-to-Las Angeles connection. Given the red flags raised about this project, FRA will investigate the delays and cost overruns through a compliance and performance review.

The slow progress by CHSRA contrasts with the impressive work of Brightline West to build a high-speed rail system. Brightline West plans to begin service between the Los Angeles region and Las Vegas in 2028.

At the direction of Secretary Duffy, FRA will review CHSRA and the progress on the Merced-to-Bakersfield Corridor. The detailed review will look at CHSRA’s compliance under the FRA-administered grant agreements to determine whether CHSRA has fully met its obligations under the award terms.  (Transportation Department) 

"The problem is California is still short $6.5 billion," Duffy added. "California doesn't have the money to complete the project, even with the federal promises that were made by the last administration, so the question becomes what do we do? Well, I can't make decisions for the great state of California, but we do have to be responsible for the tax dollars that are spent from the federal government."

Rep. Kevin Kelly (R-CA), who joined Duffy and other GOP officials at the announcement, called the project the "worst public infrastructure failure in U.S. history." 

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It is a blight on our landscape and an embarrassment to our state.   It is a symbol for the decline of modern California, showcasing political ineptitude on an epic scale.   

It exemplifies the failures of transparency and accountability, of governance and planning, of vision and leadership, of competence and common sense that have turned the greatest state in the country into the most popular state to leave.  

It represents the disregard for taxpayer dollars, for property rights, for democratic accountability, for economic reality, that have caused our beautiful state to lead the nation in all the wrong ways.   

And it highlights the small-mindedness of our politicians, who think of themselves as visionaries for plowing ahead with a 20th century project that won’t be complete until the 22nd century, at best.   

The failure of High-Speed Rail represents all that has gone wrong in modern California. And that is precisely why this is such a hopeful day; the end of this ill-fated project will serve as a new beginning. 

We are turning the page in California. A coalition for common sense is ascendant.

There were protesters who showed up to the announcement, and Duffy reminded them where their anger should be directed.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/02/21/kevin-kiley-teams-up-with-duffy-to-end-californias-high-speed-rail-boondoggle-n2652594?utm_source=thdailypmvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl