US suspends green card lottery after shootings
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🚨 Tổng thống Trump tuyên bố Mỹ sẽ "tạm ngừng nhập cư vĩnh viễn" đối với công dân các nước thế giới thứ ba. Chính sách mới công bố ngày 27/11 nhằm siết chặt kiểm soát biên giới và hạn chế nhập cư từ các quốc gia đang phát triển. #TinTức #ChínhSáchMỹ #NhậpCư #ThếGiớiThứBa
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Elected officials and civil rights advocates continue their efforts to bring home an 11-year-old U.S. citizen and brain cancer patient who was deported along with her family while attempting to travel to Houston for treatment.
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A new survey from the Kinder Institute found that more than 80% of Houston-area residents think the U.S. immigration system is not working well, while most also oppose mass deportations and support increased pathways to U.S. citizenship.
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When Empathy Fades, People Suffer: The Truth About TPS Ending for Haitians
When I first heard that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians might be extended again, I exhaled. But now? That breath is stuck in my chest.
Because as of this week, the Department of Homeland Security has reaffirmed the Trump-era decision to revoke TPS for Haitians, with plans to strip legal protections and work permits from hundreds of thousands of people starting September 11, 2024.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t just paperwork. This is people’s lives.
This decision puts countless Haitian families at risk of deportation, economic instability, and forced return to a country facing political chaos, gang violence, and humanitarian collapse.
And yet—so many in this country won’t blink. They won’t read past the headline. Because disassociation is the real epidemic in this country. And it’s burning through our humanity like wildfire.
“It’s Not My Problem” Is the New Normal
Disassociation is how people survive things they can’t emotionally process. But it’s also how folks ignore harm they choose not to face.
It shows up in all the predictable places:
- “They knew what they were doing.”
- “Why didn’t they come the right way?”
- “We have to take care of Americans first.”
That kind of logic cloaks cruelty in patriotism.
It erases the historical and present-day U.S. involvement in destabilizing countries like Haiti.
It erases the fact that people migrate because they’re forced to—by poverty, by violence, by climate disasters, by corrupt governments that often receive backing from the very countries now telling them to “go home.”
And it erases the most basic truth: Haitian immigrants are people.
They are mothers. Fathers. Students. Children. Employees. Caregivers. Friends.
And their lives should not be reduced to numbers in a policy memo.
TPS Is Not a Gift. It’s a Lifeline.
Temporary Protected Status exists for a reason—to shield people from being sent back to countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disaster, or other extraordinary conditions.
If any country fits that description, it’s Haiti.
- The country is currently going through a humanitarian crisis marked by gang violence and political instability.
- The assassination of President Moïse in 2021 left a political vacuum that has yet to be filled with any real stability.
- Schools, hospitals, and supply chains have collapsed.
- Citizens are being kidnapped and extorted at staggering rates.
- Even the U.S. has told it’s citizens not to travel to Haiti.
And yet, the U.S. is saying—you’re good to go back now.
That is policy dressed in cruelty. It’s the performance of legality covering up a total disregard for reality.
This Is Personal
As someone who has experienced the pain of immigration bureaucracy—being separated from parents for years due to paperwork—I feel this news in my bones.
I know what it’s like to live in limbo. To wonder if safety and stability are temporary.
To feel like a decision made in a government office could erase your life in one breath.
When people say things like “that’s just how the system works,” they forget there are real children, real families, real futures on the other side of that indifference.
The system doesn’t need passive acceptance. It needs pressure.
It needs people to care even when they’re not directly affected.
Why Empathy Has to Be Loud
One reason I write, speak, and post about this is because silence helps no one. And I refuse to stay quiet while people act like immigration is just a political nuisance rather than a human rights crisis.
And let’s be honest—this isn’t just about Haitians.
When we let this happen to one group, we open the door for it to happen to many.
Because disassociation spreads. It numbs people to suffering they don’t see as their own. It convinces us that someone else’s life has nothing to do with ours.
But if there’s anything we’ve learned in the last few years—from COVID, from border ‘crises’, from racial reckonings—it’s this: We are more connected than we think.
So when we say “justice for all” in this country, I want to know:
Does that include the Haitian man who delivers food while wondering if he’ll be deported next month?
Does that include the Haitian mother who keeps her kids quiet at night so ICE won’t hear them?
Does that include the Haitian teen who just wants to finish high school and not disappear into a detention center?
If the answer is no, then “justice for all” is just a slogan.
What You Can Do (Right Now)
If you’re wondering what role you play in all of this, start here:
- Talk about it. Don’t keep the conversation in the shadows. Bring it to your circles—especially the ones that don’t normally talk about immigration.
- Challenge harmful rhetoric. When someone casually repeats anti-immigrant myths, ask them where they got that info. Share the real facts.
- Support Haitian-led advocacy groups. They’re on the front lines and know exactly where resources are needed.
- Call your representatives. Yes, even if you think they won’t care. Every voice counts.
Disassociation is contagious. But so is awareness.
Final Thoughts
This country has the resources, the space, and the moral responsibility to do better.
Extending TPS wasn’t just the right thing—it was the bare minimum. Reversing that now? It’s not just dangerous. It’s shameful.
If you care about freedom, about justice, about what it means to live in a democracy—you need to care about this too.
Because the fire may not be at your door yet.
But the smoke is already in our lungs.
#disassociationInAmerica #HaitianAdvocacy #humanDignity #immigrantRights #TemporaryProtectedStatus #TPSForHaitians #USImmigrationPolicy
A lot of folks who dismiss the fears of US citizens being wrongfully deported by ICE have a certain form of privilege where neither they nor anyone close to them have been shouted at to "go back home to where you came from".
It's doubtful I will see major change in US immigration policy in my lifetime, but we still have harm reduction. One part is ensuring everyone who is accused of being here illegally receives due process.
Immigration at the heart of America's political crossroads https://noah-news.com/us/en/politics/2023/12/16/immigration-at-the-heart-of-americas-political-crossroads #USimmigrationpolicy #Bidenadministration #2024presidentialelection
More #Mexico #UnitedStates border crisis news being swept under the rug!
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https://www.opb.org/article/2023/11/22/california-desert-camp-migrant-border/
Florida bans driver's licenses of immigrants living in US illegally
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Trump pledges to end birthright citizenship on first day in office
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U.S. Visa Hike Could Be ‘Deeply Damaging’ for Touring Artists
Trade group U.K. Music is pushing officials to lobby against the U.S. proposal, which would more than double rates for foreign artists playing U.S. shows.
https://www.billboard.com/pro/us-visa-fee-prike-increase-touring-artists-protest/
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