This is John Batchelor, conversation with my colleague Evan Ellis, Professor Aben Ellis, the

host army war college. The administration is seeking to end the temporary protected status

of people who have come here from Haiti, come here without documents. Why? Well, it's overwhelming,

and it's a way of moving the population out,

which was endorsed by the last election. However, there is the question of what the Haitians go home

to, if it can be called home, and the dangers of Haiti are constantly reported. It is not a secure place. So the professor

asks, how is it that you are turning people into a situation that is dire, perhaps even

mortal? More of this tonight. Temporary protective status. Other countries have it as well, but this one, this episode is about Haiti.

Yeah, this is my understanding, John, that in addition to a number of other rulings in

which what was a temporary protected status, which has been given to the Haitians, had been

given to various other groups from other troubled countries

in not only Latin America, but far beyond. This idea of the Trump administration, that

temporary protected status is supposed to be temporary. So eventually, you take it away. Now,

with Haiti, you know, a country that is just in the process of disintegrating in violence with a lack of economic opportunity, you know, just like the ending of TPS to, you know, to other places.

The fear is that, you know, ending TPS for those Haitians who are largely in South Florida, but elsewhere, and essentially forcing them to go back to Haiti

or remain an illegal status could be basically a death sentence for those to go back.

But certainly they would not be going back to any easy economic opportunity.

So there's some fear that the ending of TPS, which has a certain logic to it,

but is sending vulnerable people back to a place where there is high rates of violence and a complete lack of economic opportunity.