\n On Wednesday, the court will start to hear oral arguments after the Trump administration appealed the decision.\n <\/p>\n
\n Ahead of the anticipated termination earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security said the program for Haiti \u201cwas never intended to be a de facto asylum program, yet that\u2019s how previous administrations have used it for decades.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the administration, opening the door for hundreds of thousands of Haitians to be deported, \u201cit would be like having the rug pulled out from under you,\u201d says Amnesty International USA\u2019s Director of Refugee and Migrant Rights, Amy Fischer.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe know that people simply cannot be deported safely to Haiti,\u201d says Fischer.\n <\/p>\n
\n Gang attacks continue to shake the nation, with a spate of deadly assaults in Haiti\u2019s Artibonite region<\/a> last month. Dozens were killed and thousands fled their homes, pushing Haiti\u2019s existing displacement crisis closer to the brink.\n <\/p>\n \n And earlier this month, armed attacks on a police station in the commune of Marigot in the country\u2019s south left at least six dead, according to police.\n <\/p>\n \n Haitian rights groups like Defenders Plus, say the violence is even reaching areas that were once seen as \u201chavens of peace.\u201d Armed groups who block roads and key supply routes have made access to necessities near impossible in some cases.\n <\/p>\n \n Communities are still facing daily challenges accessing food, water and basic services because of the rampant insecurity, says CARE\u2019s interim country director in Haiti, Rachelle Arnoux.\n <\/p>\n \n Jerome Fritsch, a physician at the MSF hospital in Cite Soleil, says the gang violence is hindering people from seeking much-needed medical care. Two weekends ago, he says rival armed groups were fighting, in a flare-up of violence his team says is the worst they\u2019ve seen in the area in two years.\n <\/p>\n \n The violence lasted until last Wednesday, but the team still has its guard up. Ready to seek shelter as needed and move patients away from windows where they could be exposed.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWe have no idea if tomorrow it\u2019s going to start again,\u201d he says.\n <\/p>\n \n And then there\u2019s the food insecurity that has reached staggering levels for millions of Haitians. According to a recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)<\/a> projection for March to June 2026, 52 percent of the population are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity.\n <\/p>\n \n Haiti\u2019s recent catastrophic floods have only compounded the country\u2019s overlapping crises. The United Nations\u2019 humanitarian office said this month that rainfall triggered severe flooding in the North-West department, killing at least 12 people, flooding more than 1,000 homes, displacing people and leading to agricultural and livelihood losses.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cDeportation is not an option right now,\u201d said Guerline Jozef, head of The Haitian Bridge Alliance, an advocacy group that focuses on migration issues facing Black migrants.\n <\/p>\n \n If TPS holders are stripped of their status and deported, the results could be catastrophic, rights groups warn. Thousands of TPS holders stand to lose the life they built for themselves in the US \u2013 but millions of Haitians back home could see their lives upended, plunged further into extreme poverty, hunger, and displacement.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIf we cut off those ties that Haitians in the United States have to be able to send back that money, we can only predict that it will force more people to leave Haiti, searching for safety and stability,\u201d warns Fischer.\n <\/p>\n \n Approximately 750,000 households in Haiti receive remittances from Haitians in the US, says Manuel Orozco, director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. About 40% of those remitters in the US are likely on TPS, he says.\n <\/p>\n \n For some people, it\u2019s their only income and sole way of affording food and medication.\n <\/p>\n \n According to Inter-American Dialogue, Haitian migrants\u2019 transfers went from 12 percent of the country\u2019s GDP in 2012 to more than a quarter in 2022.\n <\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c-gettyimages-2266547727.jpg\")
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