Fresh from a trip to Haiti, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz offered the UN Security Council on July 20 a harrowing account of the \u201ckill zone\u201d he said Port-au-Prince has become. In unusually graphic detail, he recounted grotesque incidents, including one in which several Haitian national police officers \u201cwere flayed alive in the streets [and] pinned to the side of their burning armored vehicle.\u201d
Consistent with Waltz\u2019s report, a July 10 State Department travel advisory warns: \u201cDo Not Travel to Haiti,\u201d citing \u201crobbery, carjackings, sexual assault, and kidnappings,\u201d and even the \u201crisk of being struck by stray bullets,\u201d saying that violence \u201chappens frequently.\u201d
And yet, the same government that describes horrors before the UN Security Council and certifies the country as too dangerous to travel to is preparing to deport some 350,000 Haitians there, as the US Supreme Court stands aside and allows the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Mass deportations would put these people in grave danger and exacerbate Haiti\u2019s humanitarian crisis. Many would be compelled to rejoin families living in dangerous areas where, perceived as wealthy, they could become targets for kidnapping and extortion.
It\u2019s not too late. A new Homeland Security secretary is in place, Markwayne Mullin, who could still recognize Haiti as unsafe and extend TPS. It will take some convincing: after the Supreme Court ruling, he called upon Haitians to self-deport, offering them $2,100 to go back. But maybe the fact that the Federal Aviation Administration prohibits US air carrier flights to Port-au-Prince due to ongoing instability will give him pause.
The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling is due to go into effect later this month. Secretary Mullin should listen to the words of the US ambassador to the UN and heed the State Department\u2019s warning that, in fact, applies as much to Haitians as to US citizens: Do Not Travel to Haiti.
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