OCTOBER 23, 2026

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

SAN DIEGO, CA — Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) strongly condemns the Trump-Vance administration’s continued deportation of Haitian nationals to the Republic of Haiti, including removals reportedly took place on October 22 2026. HBA reiterates its longstanding call for an immediate suspension of deportations to a country devastated by gang violence, mass displacement, and institutional collapse.

Nearly 1.5 million people are internally displaced in Haiti, where armed groups continue to perpetrate killings, kidnappings, and attacks against civilians.According to the UN, thousands of girls and women have been raped across the island. Recently four Salvadoran soldiers were kidnapped and a few months prior, several high level officials within the Haitian government were also kidnapped. Despite these conditions, the Trump administration terminated Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and employment authorization designation effective July 27, 2026, jeopardizing protections for more than 300,000 Haitian nationals  living in the United States and who have contributed to our nation’s economy.

Guerline Jozef, Founder and Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, issued the following statement:

“The Trump administration knows Haiti is not safe, yet it continues to deport people into a humanitarian catastrophe. Stripping hundreds of thousands of Haitians of Temporary Protected Status while sending families into conditions of violence and instability is a profound assault on human dignity. Haitian lives are not disposable. Black immigrant lives are not expendable. We call on the Senate to act immediately and on this administration to end these deportations. No immigration policy should come at the expense of human life.”

In April 2026, the House of Representatives TPS protections under the leadership of Rep. Ayana Pressley with bipartisan support to extend TPS protections for Haitian nationals. Senators Edward Markey and Lisa Blunt Rochester subsequently introduced S. 4814  to provide renewed TPS protections, which currently has 46 Cosponsors. Despite these efforts, the Senate has yet to enact legislation safeguarding Haitian families from deportation.

HBA urges the Senate to immediately pass legislation restoring TPS protections for Haitian nationals and calls on the Department of Homeland Security to suspend all deportations to Haiti and other countries facing humanitarian and insecurity crises. The United States must uphold its domestic and international legal obligations, including protections against returning individuals to persecution, torture, or other qualifying serious harm.

The Trump administration cannot credibly deny the dangers facing Haitian nationals when its own government has repeatedly acknowledged those very risks. The U.S. Department of State maintains its level 4 travel warning for Haiti, Do Not Travel, restricts the movement of American diplomatic personnel, and acknowledges widespread killings, kidnappings, and armed violence. Federal aviation restrictions further underscore the severity of the security crisis. Yet Haitian nationals continue to face deportation to the same country the United States warns its own citizens not to enter. If Haiti is too dangerous for American citizens and diplomatic personnel, the administration must explain why it continues to send Haitian families into those same conditions.

The United States through its own actions on the international stage, in September 2025, Washington co-sponsored a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a multinational force  of up to 5,550 personnel to confront escalating gang violence, which the U.S., will finance. The Chadian and the Salvadoran governments have already deployed troops in Haiti under this agreement.

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