Washington, July 1 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration is terminating temporary protected status, or TPS, for over half a million immigrants from Haiti who will face deportation when the relief is set to end in September. 

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Haiti is safe and no longer meets the requirements for TPS as conditions have improved in the country.

Haitians first received the relief following the devastating 2010 earthquake.  Since then, worsening gang violence and political instability, fueled by foreign intervention, has led to a worsening humanitarian crisis in Haiti.

According to the International Organization for Migration, as of May, more than 1.3 million people in Haiti are internally displaced, many fleeing armed gangs that now control most of Port-au-Prince.

Guerline Jozef, executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, said in a statement: “Sending back hundreds of thousands of people to a country overrun by gangs, where hospitals are shuttered and food is scarce, is a direct assault on Black immigrant communities.  It’s not about policy.  It’s about dehumanization.”

[ SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW ]