What Shall We Do With 350,000 Haitians?

Now that they are deportable.

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On June 25, Haitians got the bad news. After years of busy-body litigation to protect them, the US Supreme Court finally ruled that the President has the power to end their temporary protected status, or TPS. TPS is short-term mass amnesty for foreigners if the Department of Homeland Security decides their country is such a mess — temporarily — that it would be cruel to send them back. In 2010 — 16 years ago — there was an earthquake in Haiti, followed by rampant looting.

Three days later, the Obama administration granted TPS to every Haitian in America who wasn’t here legally.

TPS was supposed to last 18 months, until Haiti could clear the rubble, but there’s always rubble to clear in Haiti, and DHS extended protected status eight times and broadened eligibility twice.

About 350,000 Haitians got TPS. A few have scraped up some other kind of legal status, but with TPS over, the vast majority are now subject to expulsion.

Depending on your politics, you’ll be happy or sad to know that even if all 350,000 left, we would still have about a million Haitians and their children here. This is Miami and that’s the Haitian flag.

How did we end up with nearly 1.5 million Haitians? There were only 5,000 of them in 1960.

Lots of illegal immigration. When you see boats packed with dark faces heading for Europe today, that would have been Haitians heading for Florida in the 1970s and ’80s.

As many as 50,000 a year set sail, and a lot made it through.

There were asylum claims, the 1986 amnesty, chain migration, anchor babies, TPS, and before you know it, about 10 percent of the population of Haiti was living here.

One of the sleaziest ways they came was through Joe Biden’s backdoor deal for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, or what’s known by the acronym CHNV.

To ease the embarrassing traffic jam at the border with Mexico — as many as 300,000 illegals a month marching in — DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas decided to grant what is called “parole” to the most deserving, desirable people in the world: Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.

“Parole” is a gimmick to let inadmissible foreigners into the country one at a time for “urgent humanitarian or significant public benefit reasons.” This was mass parole.

After a rubber-stamp vetting, these people could fly right in — no undignified fence-climbing for them.

In just 18 months, more than 460,000 otherwise completely illegal immigrants zoomed in, including 211,000 Haitians, immediately eligible for Medicare, Food Stamps, you name it. I wrote about this horrible program in 2024.

What about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio? With all the rumors about eating cats and dogs, you’d think Springfield was their top destination but, at most, Springfield got only about 20,000. What got attention was that they poured in suddenly — from just 2021 to 2023. Springfield had only 60,000 people so 20,000 Haitians were a big meal. There were factory jobs, and CHNV-types and people with TPS can work legally.

In an otherwise cheerful 2024 article, about the Haitian invasion, even the New York Times admitted that Springfield had “struggled to handle soaring demand placed on health care, housing, schools and roads.” Governor Mike DeWine promised millions in support and beefed up highway patrols in the area. There was an uptick in rape, and as the Daily Caller pointed out, “shoplifting and vehicle thefts soared,” by 113 percent and 51 percent, respectively. The New York Post ran this headline: “Fatal accidents in Springfield, Ohio, jumped four-fold last year — as residents say migrants unfamiliar with US rules.”

But now, Governor DeWine loves cheap labor. Kicking [Haitians] out, he said, “is frankly a blow.” “[We] need immigrants who want to come here.”

Nobody seems to remember TPS has nothing to do with American jobs. By law, it’s about temporary misery in some other country, and in Haiti, misery is never temporary.

Here’s something else the governor won’t tell you. Even the Haitians who are working make so little money, most of them are also on welfare. Here is a graph from the Center for Immigration Studies that shows welfare use by working non-citizen households.

Y Haitians, as you can see, are near the top of the league. When tax credits for poor people are included, 70 percent get welfare. If you count only traditional handouts like food, housing, cash, Medicaid, it’s still 60 percent. That’s more than twice the rate for US-born Americans, which includes blacks and Hispanics. The white rate is a lot less. What this means is that Haitians work at such low wages that 70 percent still collect welfare. You and I subsidize their low wages.

Companies love it. On July 31, The Washington Post wrote about low-wage employers “bracing for disruptions” when TPS Haitians lose status and have to stop work. It mentioned a Staten Island nursing home that was worried it might have to raise its hiring bonus from $2,000 to $6,000.

Oh, boy. Can’t have wages rising for Americans, can we? And how much is the country as a whole going to save if the new hires are paid enough so they won’t need welfare?

I can’t find crime-rates for Haitians, but I suspect they are like other foreigners with flexible ethics: “Haitian Immigrants Carried Out Multi-Million Dollar Food Stamp Fraud Scheme in Boston.” In addition to a huge food stamp rip-off — their all-black clientele is seen here on undercover video — these thieves were  also diverting free food shipments from a charity called Feed My Starving Children.

Here are volunteers packing food to give away in poor countries.

It goes out as Manna Packs, beloved by hungry children, but these Boston entrepreneurs  were stealing them — probably in Haiti — and selling them back in the US.

So, where shall we send 350,000 Haitians? The State Department has four levels of travel alerts, and Haiti gets the highest: “Do not travel.” It says if you really must go, “Prepare a will.”

How bad is the place, really? The State Department is skittish about a lot of places. All that dark red, including parts of Mexico is do-not-travel Level 4.

If Haiti is no worse than Russia and Burma, and most of Africa, it may not be so bad. Even Western Europe, light tan, is dodgy, compared to Eastern Europe, in blue, which is as safe as Japan. I guess our government has noticed where African and Muslim immigrants are going these days.

There are no international flights into the capital Port au Prince because it’s allegedly unsafe, but there are 20 to 24 domestic arrivals and departures every day.

The city of Cap Haitien in the north gets international service.

American Airlines will start daily flights from Miami in November. Lots of Haitians live in South Florida, and they defy the State Department warning and go back and forth all the time.

“The United States has sent [only] one deportation flight a month to Haiti since December 2023,” each one with a little over 100 people. Now that TPS is over, the US told Haiti to expect two flights a week and 1,000 joyous homecomings each month.

At that rate, it would take until October 2055 to send them all back. On June 6, 1944, we landed 133,000 people on a hostile beach in just one day.

DHS is trying to persuade Haitians to sign up for what’s called CPB Home: a free air ticket and $2,600 per person. A family of four, flush with 10,400 Yankee dollars, would be off to a good start in Haiti.

The problem, of course, is that Haitians are here at all. Who could possibly have thought that with the race problems we already had, it was a good idea to let in a million people from the blackest, poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

The crazy part is that so many people at least pretend they want them here. Here are ICE protestors in Springfield: “Immigrants make America great.”

And people like that could be back in power in just a few years.

ICE, please. Work hard — really hard — while you can.