December 18, 2025

Contact: media@haitianbridge.org,  Paige Censale, pcensale@haitianbridge.org

San Diego, CA—- On International Migrants Day, Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) stands in solidarity with migrants globally and condemns the Trump Administration’s intensifying attacks on Black, Caribbean, and Global South migrants. Rather than offering protection in accordance with domestic and international laws to people fleeing violence and humanitarian, the U.S. government has doubled down on punitive measures that restrict freedom of movement and tear families apart. 

Across the world, more than 117 million people are forcibly displaced, yet the United States is deepening policies that criminalize migration instead of offering protection.

In 2025, President Trump issued expanded travel bans that block or limit entry for nationals from dozens of countries, including Haiti, and broadened restrictions to include many African and majority non-White nations—policies, which unfairly target people based on nationality rather than genuine security threats. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security is terminating Family Reunification Parole programs  for Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras—ending legal pathways that kept families together and provided work authorization for many. The administration has also moved forward with ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, stripping hundreds of thousands of Haitians of legal status despite ongoing violence and humanitarian crisis in their homeland. 

These actions are part of a broader rollback of humane immigration policies that HBA and allied organizations have repeatedly decried as discriminatory and inhumane. Rather than protecting vulnerable people, the current agenda prioritizes exclusion and deterrence, making asylum and refuge increasingly inaccessible, except, if you are white from South Africa. Against this backdrop, HBA reiterates that migration is a human right, not a threat.

Guerline Jozef, Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, states:

“The Trump Administration is weaponizing borders to decide who deserves to live. When travel bans target Black countries, when family reunification is destroyed, when TPS for Haiti is terminated—those choices are not accidental. They are deliberate acts of cruelty rooted in racism and imperialism. On International Migrants Day, we demand a world where freedom of movement is a right, not a privilege reserved for the powerful, the wealthy, or the white.”

HBA calls on the U.S. government to reverse harmful travel bans, restore family reunification and humanitarian pathways, reinstate TPS for Haiti, and expand refugee protections. Migrants are not the crisis—the crisis is a system that prioritizes borders over human life.

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