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Old Crank

(7,428 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:37 AM Yesterday

The Haitian decision

From another source.

The fact that Stephen Miller is saying that the US is closed to asylum seekers from Haiti but open to those from white South Africans tells you all you need to know.

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The Haitian decision (Original Post) Old Crank Yesterday OP
The Trump administration are worse than white supremacists. Ocelot II Yesterday #1
MaddowBlog-Thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump is poised to betray a community he vowed to 'champion' LetMyPeopleVote 18 hrs ago #2
Just openly engaging in refoulement now Prairie Gates 18 hrs ago #3
Yup. electric_blue68 16 hrs ago #4
There are 42 million Black people on America. Miller cant change that BlueWaveNeverEnd 16 hrs ago #5

Ocelot II

(131,817 posts)
1. The Trump administration are worse than white supremacists.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:50 AM
Yesterday

They are white supremacists, but they are also and more importantly white nationalists. White supremacists believe white people are superior in intelligence and other positive attributes to non-white people, but they will tolerate black/brown people in society if they "know their place" and don't expect any attempts, e.g., DEI policies or affirmative action, to improve their lives. But that's only a start for Trump and his goons. They want to remove non-white people from the US altogether, even those who are citizens. Temu Goering Greg Bovino wanted to deport 100,000,000 people, which is almost 1/3 of the total population and coincides with the total number of non-white people, including citizens. They want a 100% white society, or at least one like South Africa under apartheid, with any remaining Black/brown people segregated in ghettos and allowed only the most menial work. They'd be almost like the Dalit, the "untouchables" in India, were and to some extent still are.

The Nazis initially tried to remove Jewish people from Germany by deporting them - there was a plan to round them up and ship them to Madagascar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan It wasn't until this plan failed because of a naval blockade that the Nazis decided to exterminate the Jews instead. Would Miller go that far?

LetMyPeopleVote

(183,986 posts)
2. MaddowBlog-Thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump is poised to betray a community he vowed to 'champion'
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 04:37 PM
18 hrs ago

In 2016, Trump told Haitian Americans he wanted to be the community’s “biggest champion.” A decade later, the rhetoric rings like a cruel joke.

Around this time a decade ago, Trump stressed the “common values” he shared with Haitian Americans and vowed to be the community’s “biggest champion.”

Ten years later, the rhetoric rings like a cruel joke.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-26T13:57:41.403Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/supreme-court-trump-haitians-vowed-to-champion

Around this time 10 years ago, when Florida was still seen as a competitive battleground state, Donald Trump campaigned in Miami and spent some time at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, stressing the “common values” he shared with Haitian Americans.

“Whether you vote for me or not,” the candidate said at the time, “I really want to be your biggest champion.”....

And two years after that, a full decade after he stressed the “common values” he shared with Haitian Americans and vowed to be the community’s “biggest champion,” the Republican took steps to eliminate temporary status protection for hundreds of thousands of Haitians currently living legally in the United States.

The move sparked a court fight, culminating in a predictable ruling from the high court’s conservative majority. MS NOW’s Jordan Rubin explained:

The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority sided with the Trump administration over Haitians and Syrians on Thursday in a ruling on the administration’s attempt to end humanitarian safeguards under the Temporary Protected Status program.

Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion curbed the power of courts to review government decisions to terminate protections under the TPS program. For this case, the majority said that means Haitians and Syrians aren’t entitled to orders keeping their protections in place while their litigation proceeds, even though lower courts found serious legal problems with the administration’s attempt to end their protections
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Writing for the three-member minority, Justice Elena Kagan explained that without such postponement, “hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians living in this country will lose their legal status and work authorization” and that most of them “will have no legal option except to leave the country, even at the price of leaving family behind.”

Kagan went on to note that hundreds of thousands of lives “will be uprooted, most permanently, while this litigation to annul the Secretary’s (likely illegal) termination orders proceeds.”

By all appearances, the White House considers such consequences a feature, not a bug.

In her latest opinion piece for The New York Times, Kate Shaw, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, added that with the high court’s ruling, the administration “is now free to move forward with what immigrants rights advocates describe as the largest de-documentation in U.S. history.”
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