These are human beings who came to us for help. They are not criminals. And they have benefited America. What kind of monsters send these children into a hellhole? Is this what America has become?

Is this the America we voted for? Is this the America that makes us proud?

Shame on us. 

By Gerard Maxineau and Dánica Coto
Associated Press
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — The U.S. deported more than 160 people to Haiti on Thursday for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians.

The plane landed in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien because the main international airport in Port-au-Prince is considered too dangerous. The U.S. government currently has a ban on U.S. commercial flights to Haiti’s capital through early September because of ongoing gang violence.

It’s too dangerous to land our planes, but that is where we send innocent men, women and children.

The deportees were clad in white, and many covered their faces as journalists filmed their arrival. Nearly all declined to talk, with some fearing being targeted by gangs that control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince and swaths of land beyond.

The deportees included TPS holders and Haitians who had served prison sentences, said Jean Négot Bonheur Delva, director general of Haiti’s National Office of Migration. “It is not the Haitian state that asks for them to be sent back,” he said. “Our mission is to welcome migrants of forced return. … We welcome them with the aim of accompanying them to their home.”

Deported Haitians search for a home
Delva noted that some of the deportees were not born in Haiti, although they are of Haitian descent. He said that several deportees planned to travel to Haiti’s southern region, a dangerous journey because gangs control the main routes leading to that area and are known to randomly open fire on vehicles passing through.

Others are going to Haiti’s western region, he said. “There is one migrant who knows nothing about Haiti because he said he was coming from the Dominican Republic; that’s where he was born,” Delva said.

He said the government would attempt to reunify him with any potential relatives in Haiti or the Dominican Republic, where his mother and father live.

Immigration officials in Haiti on Thursday offered deportees a maximum of $65and something to drink and eat. “Those who cannot reach their homes today, we will host them in secure spaces and the next day the process will continue until all migrants return home as they should,” Delva said.

Delva did not say how many of the 161 deportees were TPS holders who had been living and working legally in the U.S. since 2010. In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the TPS program to end, affecting some 1
million people from more than a dozen countries.

The cases went back to the lower courts, but by late July, the government had not extended work permits for Haitians. On Aug. 5, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., lifted an order preventing deportations of Haitians on Temporary Protected Status, which was effectively a formality after the Supreme Court ruling in June.

Activists warn Haiti is too dangerous for deportees
Activists have warned that Haiti is currently too dangerous and doesn’t have enough resources to help those being deported to a country of nearly 12 million people, of which more than half need humanitarian assistance because of surging gang violence and deepening poverty, hunger and violence.

Why? Why are we sending these human beings into poverty, hunger, and violence.? Is this the way we “make America great again? Is this something that we will put in our history books and teach our children? Or will we conceal it in shame because it is too “woke”?

Gang violence already has displaced a record 1.5 million people across Haiti, where more than 3,100 people were reported killed from January to June and another 1,189 injured, according to U.N. statistics.

As gang violence persists, Haitian migrants in the U.S. continue to be arrested and deported. On Thursday, U.S. authorities arrested a popular Haitian pastor at a gas station in Springfield, Ohio, according to Springfield G92, a faith-based group supporting Haitian immigrants. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a second Haitian man who was with him.

The pastor, Gilbert Joubert Adrien, was being held by immigration authorities in Ohio, said Marjory Wentworth, a spokesperson for Springfield G92. She said ICE has been a heavy presence in recent days in Springfield, a city of about 60,000 people that gained attention when U.S. President Donald Trump said falsely during his 2024 campaign that Haitian residents there ate dogs.

Haiti’s Group Supporting Refugees and Returnees has decried the deportations.
“Haiti is not ready to receive this number of migrants who were in the TPS program,” it said in a statement Thursday. The group noted that more than 140,000 Haitians have been deported from neighboring countries, including the Dominican Republic, in the first half of the year alone.

Is America no better than this? Do we use the lowest level as an example to justify our actions?

“We note that there are no government measures in place to adequately assist these migrants,” the group said. It added that many of those deported “have seen their dreams go up in smoke; the bonds they had already made in their communities are broken. Many are experiencing family separation.”

The U.S. had conducted about one deportation flight to Haiti since December 2023, according to Human Rights First’s ICE Flight Monitor, which tracks flight data. Since December 2025, flights have originated in Alexandria, Louisiana, a hub for ICE deportation flights, with a stop in Miami on the way to Cap-Haitien International Airport.

Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

These are innocent men, women, and children, who we sent to horror, misery and death. 

Why? So that Donald Trump can spend millions on a gold ballroom and put his name on streets and airports?

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

 

You might find this a helpful reference the next time you discuss federal financing.

1. It’s not really federal “debt.” It’s deposits into T-security accounts at the Federal Reserve Bank, similar to deposits into private bank savings accounts, but safer.
2. Those deposits pose no threat to the federal government’s solvency. As a Monetarily Sovereign entity, it can pay all its bills, of any size, simply by pressing computer keys.
3. Those deposits also pose no threat to taxpayers, since neither the deposits nor the interest are funded by taxes. The government creates new dollars to fund interest and all other federal spending.
4. The federal government has the power to pay off the entire “debt” (deposits) today, if it chose to, merely by returning all the dollars in those T-security accounts.
5. Federal deficits are in lockstep with T-security issuance legally, but not financially. As a Monetarily Sovereign government, the federal government never borrows dollars.
6. Even if the federal government collected $0 taxes, it could continue spending forever.
7. The purposes of T-securities have nothing to do with federal spending or taxing. The purposes are:
   A. To provide a safe, interest-paying place to store unused dollars and
   B. To help the Fed control interest rates by providing a base rate
8. The federal government also has the power to control market interest rates merely by changing its laws and/or by increasing or decreasing the supply of T-securities.
9. The federal government has the infinite ability to pay interest, simply by pressing computer keys. No taxes are involved.
10. Just as T-securities do not provide the government with spending money, federal taxes also do not provide the government with spending money. The purposes of federal taxes are:
    A. To control the economy by taxing what the government wishes to discourage and by giving tax breaks to what the government wishes to reward, and
    B. To assure demand for the U.S. dollar by requiring that taxes be paid in dollars.
11. Federal interest payments are economic growth dollars, added to GDP.
12. Federal deficit spending is necessary for economic growth. When the federal government has failed to deficit spend, we have had depressions or recessions. (See: https://mythfighter.com/2026/04/29/historical-bullshit-claims-the-federal-debt-is-a-ticking-time-bomb-from-sept-26-1940-to-april-20-2026/)
13. Recessions tend to be cured by increased deficit spending.
14. FICA does not fund Social Security or Medicare. The so-called “trust funds” are not real trust funds. Federal money creation funds those programs (and all other federal programs). The “trust funds” are line items tracking payments and disbursements, nothing at all like trust funds.
15. The greatest threat to the U.S. economy is the false belief that federal deficits and debt resemble private sector deficits and debt, and that the economy can grow without federal deficit spending. It has not. It will not. It cannot.
16. Inflation never is caused by “too much federal spending.” Inflation always is caused by shortages of crucial goods and services, most often energy and food.
17. Inflation is cured by increased federal spending to obtain and distribute the scarce items.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell