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’State-sponsored cruelty’: Trump administration rebuked for ending protection for Haiti immigrants during Thanksgiving holiday

The Trump administration announced that it has terminated Temporary Protected Status for Haitian nationals living in the United States, even as their country is embroiled in violence and political and economic instability. The nation’s leading organization for Haitian rights rebuked the administration’s revocation of TPS for Haitians—particularly on the eve of Thanksgiving. “When the U.S. government knowingly chooses to send people back to a nation that they themselves have put on a category 4 do not travel due to the […]

todayNovember 27, 2025

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Trump Sends Food to Gaza, But Ignores Haiti and African Nations That Need Food Too

Nationwide — Former President Donald Trump announced Monday that the United States will increase its efforts to deliver food aid to Gaza, promising to help establish “food centers” to address the growing humanitarian crisis in the region. While the move has been welcomed by many as a necessary step to address widespread hunger in the war-torn area, critics point out the glaring silence from Trump on equally dire famines in Haiti, which is being called a “UN-declared famine hotspot” and […]

todayJuly 30, 2025

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Trump’s travel ban disrupts critical treatment for sick Haiti children in need of surgery

The ramifications of the Trump administration’s travel ban on 12 Black and brown countries have been swift, including in Haiti, where the lives of sick children hang in the balance. The International Cardiac Alliance, which has sent more than 100 Haitian children with serious cardiac conditions to the United States for heart surgery, tells NBC News that Trump’s ban, which went into effect on Monday, will stall or cancel lifesaving procedures for at least a dozen children or young adults. […]

todayJune 9, 2025

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Watch: Pressley says Haiti is owed ‘so much’ for modeling Black resistance amid crisis

On this week’s episode of theGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan,” U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., lays out why it’s America’s moral responsibility to help the people of Haiti amid unrest there, and she addresses how stabilizing the Caribbean nation is in the best interests of the United States. Pressley, the co-founder and co-chair of the House Haiti Caucus, said America’s Black and brown migrants are disproportionately impacted by America’s “broken” system. The congresswoman, who said her district contains the third-largest Haitian […]

todayJune 30, 2024

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Watch: Topics of Haiti and Congo dominate US-Kenya press conference

TheGrio was on hand at the U.S.-Kenya press conference for the official state visit of Kenya President William Ruto. TheGrio’s April Ryan posed questions to both President Joe Biden and President Ruto about the ongoing conflicts and instability in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Overall, the press conference dealt with issues of a 60-year cooperative relationship between both countries. One of the major tangibles that came out of the bilateral meetings with both presidents was that Kenya is […]

todayMay 24, 2024

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Gangs in Haiti launch fresh attacks, days after a new prime minister is announced

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs in Haiti laid siege to several neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, burning homes and exchanging gunfire with police for hours as hundreds fled the violence early Thursday in one of the biggest attacks since Haiti’s new prime minister was announced. The attacks began late Wednesday in neighborhoods including Solino and Delmas 18, 20 and 24 located southwest of the main international airport, which has remained closed for nearly two months amid relentless gang violence. “The gangs started […]

todayMay 3, 2024

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Hakeem Jeffries calls on Republicans to release funding for Haiti

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday demanded that Republican lawmakers immediately back the release of millions of dollars in funding for Haiti as the Caribbean nation is beset by political violence and instability. “America needs to stand with the people of Haiti,” Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, told theGrio during his weekly presser. Jeffries said the money should have been released on Wednesday. Haiti has seen a rise in violence, deaths and kidnappings since late February as armed gangs members […]

todayApril 15, 2024 1

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Watch: White House updates on crucial funding for Haiti

During a White House press briefing, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan updates theGrio on the latest involving proposed funding for Haiti as the Caribbean nation faces civil unrest. The United States is seeing a lack of support from Republican lawmakers who are needed to approve the millions in funding for Haiti, which is currently overrun by gangs. To date, tens of thousands of Haitians have been displaced from their homes. Watch more below! Source link Summarize this content to 200 […]

todayApril 11, 2024

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Watch: White House pressed on Haiti | The Hill with April Ryan

This week’s edition of “The Hill With April Ryan” examines Haiti’s drastic political and humanitarian concerns. TheGrio pressed the White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan about what the Biden-Harris administration wants for the impoverished and unstable Black Caribbean nation and the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into the country to support international humanitarian efforts to bring Haiti back to democratic rule. On “The Hill,” Ryan also speaks with Quentin James of The Collective PAC about the critical endorsements […]

todayMarch 15, 2024