October 30, 2025
Contact: media@haitianbridge.org,  Paige Censale, pcensale@haitianbridge.org

San Diego, CA. — Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) denounces the Trump Administration’s  Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2026, which caps U.S. refugee admissions for Fiscal Year 2026 at a mere 7,500 people — while explicitly prioritizing White South Africans over refugees from war-torn and climate-ravaged nations across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Global South.

This decision, cloaked in bureaucratic language about “ national interest” and “security,” represents a dangerous and racially selective redefinition of humanitarianism. For the first time in modern history, the United States has institutionalized a refugee policy that names a white ethnic group for preferential resettlement while closing the door on Black and Brown people fleeing persecution, dictatorship, and climate collapse.

“Let’s call this what it is — white supremacy disguised as refugee policy,” said Guerline Jozef, Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. “At a time when Black refugees from Haiti, Sudan, the Congo, and Cameroon are drowning at sea, languishing in detention, or being deported to death, the U.S. government has decided to open its arms to those who already enjoy global privilege. This is not just immoral — it’s anti-Blackness codified into federal policy.”

“We reject the idea that whiteness equates to worthiness,” Jozef continued. “From Del Rio to Lampedusa, Black migrants and other immigrants of color have been criminalized, beaten, caged and disappeared in CECOT camp in El Salvador — while their humanity is debated like a policy variable. This moment demands our humanity, our resistance, not silence.”

HBA calls on Congress, the United Nations, African Union, Organization of American States, CARICOM, the European Union and all human-rights defenders to condemn this apartheid-era logic embedded in U.S. refugee policy and to demand a reversal of this determination. The United States cannot claim moral authority abroad while practicing racial triage at its borders.

ABOUT HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE

Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), also known as “The Bridge”, is a grassroots community organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies, foreign policy, and provides migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services, with a particular focus on Black migrants, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. HBA also seeks to elevate the issues unique to Black migrants and builds solidarity and collective movement toward policy change. Anpil men chay pa lou (“Many hands make the load light”). Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook: @haitianbridge