The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s TPS Decision on Haiti and Syria
On the July 9 National TPS Day of Action, BAP calls for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas that Confronts and Defeats US/EU/NATO Axis of Domination in the Western Hemisphere
The Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 25 decision allowing the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria. This decision clears the way for the Department of Homeland Security to begin deporting approximately 350,000 Haitian and 6,000 Syrian TPS holders while advancing the fiction that countries subjected to years of U.S.-led destabilization are now safe to return to.
Across Haitian and Syrian communities, this ruling has already created a climate of fear. Families are increasingly afraid to send their children to school, attend religious gatherings, seek medical care, go to work, or participate in public life out of fear that routine activities could expose them to detention or deportation.
However, the solution to this fear and predation cannot be running into the arms of the Democratic Party for “protection” via perpetual legal limbo. On this National TPS Day of Action, we share a reminder that what is presented as an “immigration crisis” is, in reality, what BAP has for years identified as a crisis of imperialism. The resolution of this crisis requires the defeat of U.S.-led imperialism and other structures of oppression, and the advancement of popular sovereignty based in People(s)-Centered Human Rights.
As the Haitian Popular Press Agency recently reminded the world, “TPS was not a gift from Obama to the Haitians. It was a temporary protection won amid conditions shaped by catastrophe, displacement, and decades of U.S.-led intervention.” The agency further affirmed, “the organizations that defend the rights of Haitians will continue to fight to force the racist extreme right to reconsider the TPS case.” Defending TPS is therefore not an appeal for charity from the U.S. government, but part of the ongoing struggle for Haitian and other global south people’s right to live free from violent displacement, neocolonial intervention, and imperialist domination both in the U.S. and their home countries.
Much of the armed violence concentrated in Port-au-Prince has been fueled by the trafficking of U.S.-sourced firearms, particularly through South Florida, alongside years of foreign intervention overseen by the U.S.-led Core Group, that have strengthened armed groups while undermining Haitian sovereignty.
The termination of TPS cannot be understood in isolation. It is the latest expression of a bipartisan system that first meddles in countries like Haiti and Syria through occupation, economic coercion, and foreign control, then criminalizes the very people displaced by those policies. Those contradictions are on full display as the United States hosts the FIFA World Cup while stripping humanitarian protections from Haitians, expanding deportations, and further restricting Haitian mobility.
Even FIFA’s decision to ban Haiti’s World Cup jersey depicting the Battle of Vertières represents a long pattern in which Haitian revolutionary history is treated as something to be erased. That is why we say: Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S. The concurrent denial of dignity of Haitians in the games and in the geopolitical sphere is linked, and U.S. impunity for its crimes — global and domestic — must end.
We condemn the Supreme Court’s decision in the strongest possible terms and stand with the struggle for self-determination and a People(s) Centered Human Rights. We reaffirm our call of the necessity for popular and revolutionary forces to build a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, where sovereignty, not intervention—determines the future of its peoples.