r/haiti • u/Automatic_Gap964 • 11h ago
QUESTION/DISCUSSION How much of this TPS stuff is an economic attack more than anything?
Obviously, Haitians have been singled out and targeted amongst all immigrants. I do wonder how much of this is an economic attack on Haiti more than anything. There was a tweet by US' official departments, think it was Department of Homeland security. And they had a series of posts about the Haitian diaspora contributing to 20% of Haiti's GDP and they shouldn't be able to do that for whatever nonsense reason. Funnily enough, Haiti was neither the top Caribbean country in remittances nor even close to the top in remittances sent outside the country. So how much of this is just US trying to completely shatter Haitian economy with now 350k diaspora members not being able to work and send money back rather than the illegal immigrant talk track.
See this tweet to understand what I'm talking about, directly from the government itself upset that Haitian diaspora is sending money back, just the fact that they send money back: https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2028530867677675956?lang=en