On Sunday July 20, 2025, during the last evening of the big four -day conference of the Tabernacle of Glory, Bishop Gregory Toussaint awarded a plaque of honor to the Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association (Heca), officially recognizing the decisive role played by this organization in the defense of Haitian immigrants’ rights. This recognition occurs a few weeks after a major legal victory which preserved the temporary protection status (TPS) for more than 500,000 Haitians residing in the United States.
The context: a new attack on the Haitian TPS
The Trump administration offensive
In February 2025, the Trump administration launched a new offensive against the humanitarian protections of Haitian immigrants. On February 24, internal security secretary Kristi Noem announced a “partial revocation” of the haiti/”>haiti/”>haiti/”>Haiti TPS designation, reducing the protection period from 18 months to 12 months and advancing the expiration date from February 3, 2026 to August 3, 2025.
Discriminatory motivations
According to the complaint filed by Heca, this decision is part of a racial discrimination pattern of the Trump administration. The document cites the controversial declarations of President Trump during his campaign, including his unfounded affirmations that the Haitians of Springfield, Ohio, “flew and ate domestic animals of American citizens”. The complaint also mentions its comments according to which non-Black immigrants “poison the blood” of the United States and its preference expressed for immigrants from “pleasant” countries such as Switzerland and Norway.
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