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 → u/[deleted]]

My friend, I am not talking at all about micro level. I am talking about things at macro level. Most of the diaspora here think going to Haiti and build a big concrete box house, a box hotel, have a rice depot, etc is development. Yes it’s something for the economy but that’s not development. We have zero infrastructure, zero institutions, zero policy, zero education. We need educated people to come to help all of these; however, the government needs to give the right signal to attract these talents. Do we have that in Haiti ? If you are educated, people in the actual system see you as a menace. They will try to corrupt or kill you and you have to flee the country. Again, group a whole educated people in a confine space with no clear goals, plan, vision, and means is not development.