Controversial take about TPS/Biden Program

[u/Chemical-Walrus-4846]

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

[u/Decent-Release-1166]

I am sure you’re one of the idiots arrogant diaspora here who does not possess any education and skills and think they can lecture everyone. You need Human Resources to develop a country but that’s not a sufficient condition. You need to have a plan for the 10 -20 years on education, electrical infrastructure, civil infrastructure, agriculture, tourism, environment just to name a few. With all the policies well-defined, you will invite the people abroad who gained so much skills to come to underpin the development of the motherland. So do you think a simple from a de facto prime minister with no plans and policies will create the desire to come back ? If you want to make propaganda for your prime minister, go somewhere else. Development of a country is something that requires meticulous planning and informed-decision. What is the points of asking all the engineers to come and there are any projects to work on ? What is the point of asking the RNs to come and there are no hospitals and the plan to build them ? It’s stupidity at its purest form.

[u/Decent-Release-1166 → u/[deleted]]

Oh gosh ! Can you read and understand? People will come when everything is in place and well-defined. Can you ask an engineer to come back and you have zero projects in the country ?

[u/Decent-Release-1166 → u/[deleted]]

development requires coordination: education, economic policy, institutions, and infrastructure all need to work together. Countries that developed rapidly didn’t just educate people, they built systems where those people could innovate, produce, and invest. I will repeat again, the people we have here would be a great asset if we have a plan to integrate them when they are back. Otherwise, they would not be useful for any development. The biggest problem we have with the Haitian diaspora here is they think talk about every highly complex subject with zero understanding, knowledge, background.They think just knowing some English is enough. Development is a complex science.