Miami.- More than 350,000 Haitians in the United States lose their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) this Monday, so the Donald Trump Administration is preparing operations for their mass deportation that would begin in the state of Ohio, according to reports from media and congressmen.
Deportation protection for Haitians expired following a federal appeals court ruling last week that postponed the end of TPS until this Monday. On June 25, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to revoke the permit.
In this context, Republican lawmakers celebrated reports in the press this Monday regarding a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operation that would begin in Ohio, where Trump spread the false idea during the 2024 presidential campaign that Haitians were eating people’s pets.
“What is going to happen in Ohio is that they are going to start moving Haitians out of Ohio,” stated U.S. Congressman Michael Rulli, a Republican from that state, in an interview with Fox News. “Let’s get everyone out of here and start from scratch,” he added.
Nearly 2,000 arrests per day
Although the first raids will focus on Ohio, where there are an estimated 14,000 Haitians with TPS, the greatest fear is in Florida, where nearly half of the affected population lives, some 158,000, according to data from the civil organization FWD.us.
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Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents a district in Florida, denounced that the DHS plans to detain nearly 2,000 Haitians a day to deport them to Haiti.
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“It is going to be a huge effort to deport the 350,000. And I know that separating Haitians from their jobs and their citizen children is going to be the Administration’s priority. That is an unacceptable situation and it is something we should not accept,” the legislator declared this Monday in a video.
The consequences of mass deportation
The deportation of Haitians would affect sectors where nearly 200,000 of them work, such as hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants, and hotels. FWD.us estimates that Haitians contribute $5.9 billion to the economy each year, with the largest contribution, $1.5 billion, in Miami.
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The DHS has argued that “the environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough” since the United States granted TPS in 2010 following an earthquake. However, activists point out that the country is in crisis, with nearly 6,000 murders in 2025, without an elected leader since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.
Furthermore, deportations would mean that nearly 50,000 children who are United States citizens would lose at least one of their parents, according to FDW.us data.
