The Trump administration is using Haiti’s “widespread” gang violence, along with the State Department’s recent decision to designate several of the country’s most powerful armed groups as “foreign terrorists,

Top Haitian-American community leaders in South Florida are pleading to President Donald Trump to reverse the administration’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants to prevent a humanitarian disaster.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said allowing Haitians to stay in the country was against the “national interest.” The Trump administration announced an end to temporary legal protections for Haitian migrants in the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of people at risk of deportation.