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Here’s part of the Haitian deportation story that the media isn’t telling you about telling: President Trump is being remarkably generous, and getting virtually no credit for it.
The Department of Homeland Security has terminated Temporary Protected Status for 340,000 Haitians who were admitted on a temporary basis during a claimed humanitarian crisis. With that status expired, there is no legal pathway for them to become permanent residents or citizens. If they’re still here, they are here illegally. And yet the Trump administration is offering each one twenty-six hundred dollars plus a free flight home, where many of them have family waiting.
Trump didn't have to do that. He has the legal authority to deport them immediately without offering a single dime. The Supreme Court ruled in June that the president has virtually unlimited power to terminate TPS status. But still the administration is paying people to leave voluntarily rather than simply removing them. Nevertheless, mainstream media is circulating images of Haitians wearing ankle monitoring bracelets, trying to paint Trump as a cruel. Let's be clear — ankle bracelet monitors are far more lenient than detention or immediate removal. That’s not cruelty, that is restraint.
The real problem is that the process is moving too slowly. Thirty thousand Haitians remained in central Ohio as of the end of July — half of them in Springfield, the same community that became a flashpoint in the 2024 election. DHS told Ohio Governor DeWine there are no immediate plans to remove them. Trump has reportedly rebuked DHS Secretary Mullin directly for slowing enforcement. Meanwhile an Obama-appointed judge in Boston attempted to block the return of over a thousand Somalis — despite the Supreme Court's ruling that these presidential decisions are largely unreviewable by lower courts.
Even now, activist judges are ordering that detained illegal aliens be released on bond. People who entered this country illegally are being released onto American streets with bond amounts smaller than a traffic fine. Governor DeWine insists this is necessary, because Haiti is “hell.” There are twelve million people living in Haiti. Relocating three percent of that population to Ohio does nothing to help Haiti. It just creates a different problem here.
The law is clear. The Supreme Court has spoken. It's time to follow through.
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