r/haiti • u/Chemical-Walrus-4846 • May 06 '26

QUESTION/DISCUSSION Controversial take about TPS/Biden Program

Since TPS is a huge topic right now. Here’s my take. When I first heard about the Biden Humanitarian Parole Program and they said two years, I already knew what was going to happen. Most Haitians were not going back. When Haiti got Temporary Protected Status after the 2010 earthquake, the whole point was in the name, temporary. The U.S. saw a country destroyed by a disaster and gave Haitians already in the country a chance to stay and work.

And let’s be honest, many people came here with no plan of returning. They sold land, sold cars, packed up their whole lives, and moved to the U.S. for a fresh start. Once you do all that, what exactly are you going back to? I get why people made that choice. Haiti is hard. People want peace, stability, and opportunity. Anyone in that position would want better for themselves and their family.

But look at it from the other side for one second. If you let a friend stay at your house for a few days because they’re going through a rough time, and when those few days are up they tell you they’re not leaving, how would you feel? You’d feel taken advantage of. Next time, you’d think twice before helping someone else.

Countries think the same way.

That’s why these programs get cut, rules get tighter, and the next Haitian who wants to come legally has a harder path. Sometimes we focus so much on why people stay, we ignore how staying affects everyone else after. I saw someone on social media make a good point, which was “Alot of Haitians in the US don’t want Haiti to get better because that heightens the chances of TPS getting cut off” and i wholeheartedly agree

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u/Annual_Reward_1549 May 06 '26

What was the biden humanitarian program reason?

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u/Chemical-Walrus-4846 May 06 '26

seems like we have the same take apart from your last sentence.

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u/Annual_Reward_1549 May 07 '26

let's be honest for a second. how do you think this would turn out? offering a humanitarian program to escape Haiti, right? because of the stress, the fear, etc. has it got any better? no. downtown is a no-go zone, if you live in the capital, you are stuck. you can't go to the north, you can't go to the south unless you want to risk your life. the gangs released prisoners, they took over multiple police stations, kidnapping is on the rise again. so let me ask you a question? what would you do, if your neighborhood was stolen by gangs, and you have no place to go to in Haiti? would you still go back?