In a pair of 6-3 decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court recently ruled that the Trump administration could end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians, and it also upheld a “metering” policy allowing immigration officials to turn away asylum seekers waiting in Mexico.
The ruling means that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could end TPS for approximately 350,000 Haitian immigrants, many of whom have been in the U.S. for decades and have made a living and raised families here. Based on that, the number of people who could be impacted could be higher.
According to the American Immigration Council, “Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a temporary immigration status provided to nationals of certain countries experiencing problems that make it difficult or unsafe for their nationals to be deported there.
TPS has been a lifeline to hundreds of thousands of individuals already in the United States when problems in a home country make their departure or deportation untenable.”
The targeting of Haitians is deliberate. In the run-up to the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, then-candidates Donald Trump and JD Vance spread vicious rumors and lies, which were debunked, about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
Unfortunately, “making trouble” and “spreading lies” have been, and remain, the methods our open enemy has used in its strategy and plan to keep us divided from one another.
Many of our Haitian brothers and sisters have left or been forced to leave their homeland, for no fault of their own. The current conditions in Haiti stem from decades of U.S. and Western misdeeds, interference, and downright evil actions.
We cannot allow apathy about what is happening in our communities to make us turn a blind eye to Black people who may come from different countries. Apathy means a state of indifference characterized by a lack of emotion, motivation, or concern. Often, we are so consumed with our own day-to-day lives—which is important—but we cannot fall into indifference where we respond, “that’s them, not me.”
According to reporting by Capital B News in a June 2025 article titled, “Black Undocumented Migrants Face Far Higher Deportation Rates,” “One of the most underreported aspects of life for Black undocumented migrants can be summed up in one statistic:
They’re deported at a rate four times more often than their numbers would suggest, according to an analysis of federal data by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration.”
Today, it is Haitians being targeted for deportation; tomorrow, it could be Blacks, regardless of our country of birth. For those who argue that they were born in the U.S. and are therefore rightful and legal citizens of the U.S., that does not mean there will be no impact.
How is the government going to determine “who is Haitian?” Haitians are Black. They just happen to speak Haitian Creole and/or French, as well as English, the languages of their and our slave masters and colonizers.
America’s “immigration” issue is a hot-button topic that often results in finger-pointing and accusations, instigated by those who have shown themselves to be enemies to all Black people, whether we are from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Jamaica, or born and raised on the South Side of Chicago.
In the sight of Almighty God Allah, who appeared in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, The Great Mahdi, we are one people. In the Supreme Wisdom Lessons of the Nation of Islam, the question is asked:
“Who is the Original Man?” The answer: “The Original man is the Asiatic Black man; the Maker; the Owner; the Cream of the planet Earth—God of the Universe.”
While it is easy to look at our various languages, cultures and countries of birth as differences to further divide us, it is, in fact, one of our biggest strengths.
The front cover of the iconic Muhammad Speaks newspaper at times featured an illustration of a Black man from America and a Black man from Africa, their arms outstretched toward each other over the Earth. The words: Asia, Africa and America were also written on the illustration.
What happens to our people, wherever we are, is important, and we must recognize that we are one people. Just because one group of Black people is being targeted does not mean the rest of us are somehow exempt from the plans of the enemy.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has traveled in and out of America, speaking to Black people all over the world about our common struggles and who we are to one another.
“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad single-handedly turned us from calling ourselves Negroes to accepting ourselves. No matter what shade of color we were, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad asked us to refer to ourselves as the Black man, the Original People of the Earth.
And when we saw ourselves as Black people, then every person of color on the Earth, we identified with them,” said Minister Farrakhan in a May 7, 2006, interview on “The Open Line Show” on 98.7 KISS FM in New York, N.Y., hosted by the late James Mtume. The article was published in The Final Call under the title, “Reconnecting the international struggles of Black people.”
Minister Farrakhan, a Black man, has Caribbean roots. His mother was from St. Kitts, his grandmother from Nevis, his father from Jamaica, and his stepfather was from Barbados.
“So, in the ’60s, nothing could happen on the African continent that Black people in America were not concerned with. Nothing could happen in the Caribbean, Brazil, Central America or in the Islands of the Pacific where Black people were concerned that we did not feel, because a nervous system was being created for Black people that we felt the pain of one another wherever we were on the Earth,” Minister Farrakhan said.
As the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad reminds us in “Message to the Blackman in America,” on page 33, “Love yourself and your kind. Let us refrain from doing evil to each other, and let us love each other as brothers, as we are the same flesh and blood.”
We thank Allah (God) for the wisdom given to us from and by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad that teaches us to see the Black man and woman, regardless of where we are, as one people. We must not allow our differences to lead to further disunity. Allah (God) is not the author of confusion.