Trump gets rid of Haitian immigration protection, affecting half a million people

The decision announced Thursday means they would lose their work permits and could be eligible to be removed from the country by August of this year.

The Trump administration is throwing out protections that shielded roughly half a million Haitians from deportation, meaning they would lose their work permits and could be eligible to be removed from the country by August.

The decision, announced Thursday, is part of a sweeping effort by the Trump administration to make good on campaign promises to carry out mass deportations and specifically to scale back the use of the Temporary Protected Status designation, which was widely expanded under the Biden administration to cover about 1 million immigrants.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that it was vacating a Biden administration decision to renew Temporary Protected Status — which gives people legal authority to be in the country but doesn’t provide a long-term path to citizenship — for Haitians.

People with the protection are reliant on the government renewing their status when it expires. Critics, including Republicans and the Trump administration, have said that over time the renewal of the protection status becomes automatic, regardless of what is happening in the person’s home country.

“For decades the TPS system has been exploited and abused,”Homeland Security said in the statement announcing the change. “For example, Haiti has been designated for TPS since 2010. The data shows each extension of the country’s TPS designation allowed more Haitian nationals, even those who entered the U.S. illegally, to qualify for legal protected status.”

Homeland Security said an estimated 57,000 Haitians were eligible for TPS protections as of 2011, but by July of last year, that number had climbed to 520,694.

It's not immediately clear how quickly they could be deported once their protections expire. Some may apply for other types of protection, and there are logistical challenges to carrying out such large-scale deportations.

Haiti’s migration director, Jean Negot Bonheur Delva, said only 21 Haitians have been deported so far under the Trump administration, but he noted that the group had already been scheduled for deportation under Biden. There were a total of nine flights to Haiti in 2024, according to Witness at the Border, an advocacy group that tracks flight data.

Delva cited worries about the strain of sending people back to a country still reeling from violence and where more than 1 million people are homeless because of gang violence.

“It’s very sad that people who left Haiti to look for a better life elsewhere … will come back,” Delva said. “With the insecurity problem, the lack of resources, they will be miserable.”

More than 5,600 people were reported killed last year in Haiti, according to the U.N. And many of the displaced are living in overcrowded makeshift shelters including abandoned government buildings where rapes are becoming increasingly common.

Gangs control 85% of Haiti’s capital and have launched new attacks to seize control of even more territory. Recent massacres have claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians.

Delva said Haiti’s government recently created a commission to help those deported.
“They are children of Haiti. A mother must receive her children from wherever they are,” he said.
Congress created TPS in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries suffering from natural disasters or civil strife, giving people authorization to work in increments of up to 18 months at a time.
Toward the end of the Biden administration, 1 million immigrants from 17 countries were protected by TPS, including people from Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine and Lebanon.
The Trump administration has already moved to end the protections for Venezuelans.

Two nonprofit groups Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging that decision.

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GOP House hopeful co-authored bills to provide in-state tuition, driving 'cards' to illegal immigrants

State Sen. Mark Messmer is running to represent Indiana's 8th Congressional District

A Republican state legislator running for Congress in Indiana is stressing the need to tackle illegal immigration, but has supported legislation that would have provided driving "cards" and in-state tuition rates for those in the U.S. illegally.

"I am devoted to tackling pressing issues like illegal immigration, safeguarding our liberties, protecting the unborn, balancing the federal budget, stopping the woke agenda, and growing jobs in Southwest Indiana," state Sen. Mark Messmer, who is running to represent Indiana's 8th Congressional District, wrote on his campaign website.

However, Messmer co-sponsored SB200 in 2022, which would have provided for illegal immigrants in the state to "apply for a driving card learner's permit and driving card to obtain driving privileges."

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Mike Pence aide who was fired from one government job and left another after being formally disciplined wants Indiana voters to send him to Congress, where he would take over for the boss who sacked him, according to a review of public records by The Associated Press.

State records show Diego Morales, a candidate in the GOP primary for the 4th Congressional District, was fired in 2009 by former Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita, who is giving up his reliably Republican House seat to run for Senate.
The disciplinary actions against Morales are part of a resume that also includes embellishments, a spotty work history and murky business dealings.

His campaign didn’t respond to several questions from the AP but did insist Morales served as a “senior advisor” to Pence when he was Indiana’s governor. Some of Pence’s aides have defended Morales’ use of the noscript and endorsed his candidacy. However, the campaign acknowledges his work — including such tasks as event planning and venue preparation — didn’t rise to the level of many others who worked under the eventual vice president.

Diego Morales’ service to Indiana and his country are unimpeachable,” campaign manager Michael Sorenson said in an emailed statement, noting the 39-year-old Morales is also a veteran.
Morales often touts his role on Pence’s staff as he campaigns for the nomination against Steve Braun and state Rep. Jim Baird.
A spokeswoman for the vice president did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for Rokita declined to comment on the work habits of his former employee.

Rokita’s office formally disciplined Morales after eight months due to “incomplete” work, “inefficient execution” and a “lack of focus,” according to records obtained under Indiana’s public records act. He refused to agree to a work improvement plan and had filed notice that he intended to quit when he was fired, according to a termination letter.
Two years later, Morales left a different state job after refusing to sign on to a work improvement plan under former Secretary of State Charlie White, who was himself removed from office in 2012 following a voter fraud conviction.

Morales worked just over a month in White’s office when he was disciplined for “poor execution,” failing to complete his work and leaving the office to attend a “personal function,” records show.
His letter of resignation states that he was seeking “new experiences” that would better serve his “future ambitions.”
He later landed a gig with Pence in 2013 and was among a large group of staffers awarded a Sagamore of the Wabash, one of the state’s highest honors, when Pence was leaving office for Washington.

Morales now enjoys support from a number of GOP powerbrokers and Pence allies, including former chief of staff Jim Atterholt, who encouraged him to use the noscript “senior advisor,” Morales’ campaign has acknowledged.
“I considered (Morales) to be a senior adviser to both myself and to Governor Pence,” Atterholt wrote in an emailed statement. “Diego represented the Governor at countless events around the state and was critical to being our eyes and ears on how we could be of help to any and all Hoosiers.”

At events and in campaign materials, Morales portrays himself as a “business owner,” an “adjunct professor” and high-level government worker.
But according to state records and interviews, Morales bounced around government jobs, sometimes lasting little more than a few months. His business, Aiming Higher Services, was administratively dissolved last November. And he was an adjunct instructor — not a professor — at Ivy Tech Community College, though the school system did briefly employ him as a “career resource assistant” for one month in 2010, records show.

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/indiana/2018/03/15/ex-pence-indiana-aide-running-congress-defends-resume/430019002/

The Republican chairwoman of the Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee won’t say why she is stonewalling state efforts to complement President Donald Trump’s efforts to address illegal immigration after four years of open borders.
The Republican-led Indiana House passed HB 1531 that would, in part, stop illegal aliens from undercutting hard-working Hoosiers by creating penalties for employers who knowingly hire or employ illegal aliens. The legislation states an employer is not in violation of the law if he “engaged in reasonable diligence to confirm the work eligibility…”

If found engaging in illegal employment, the employer has 15 days to terminate the alien and provide proof to the state attorney general in the form of a signed affidavit. Otherwise, the consequence is the “suspension of all of the employer’s operating authorizations at the location or locations where the violation or violations occurred for a period of one hundred eighty days.”
The legislation would also make clear that all Indiana law enforcement must honor a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer request and hold a suspect in custody for 48 hours. It would also permit the state to gather data to determine how illegal immigration affects citizens and public resources, and to consider withholding state funds from localities that refuse to enforce immigration laws.
But Sen. Liz Brown has yet to bring the legislation the vast majority of her party supports for a committee vote, effectively freezing it. If the legislation passes a committee vote, it will move to the Senate floor and likely be passed into law given its support among the state Republican caucus. But if Brown does not allow a vote, it will die with the end of the legislative session in one month.
Brown did not respond to an inquiry from The Federalist about whether she plans to allow her colleagues to vote on the bill.

There are, however, two additional ways the legislation could make it out of committee. In one, Senate President Pro-Tem Rodric Bray could reassign the legislation to another committee. Bray did not return a request for comment. The other way is via rules stating “the author of such bill or any member of the Senate shall have the right to call the attention of the Senate to such fact.” Two-thirds of state senators can then vote to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.
R.J. Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement and a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told The Federalist it’s “unfathomable that states would ignore the overwhelming immigration enforcement mandate we won on in November, yet the Indiana Senate still won’t even set HB 1531 for a hearing.”
“Small, piecemeal measures like the handful of other immigration bills moving in Indiana are not enough and are no substitute for the meaningful reforms in HB 1531. As Congress works through reconciliation, states must step up,” he said.
Despite this roadblock, the majority of Indiana Republicans support the bill, state officials told The Federalist. The two top vote-getters in Indiana in 2024’s elections were Trump and Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, both strong supporters of immigration enforcement. State Rep. J.D. Prescott, who introduced the legislation, said its main goal is “to protect American workers.”

“The main portion of this bill is to protect American workers. We’re going to make sure companies are following the law. It’s already illegal to hire illegal immigrants based off of federal law, so we just want to make sure that our state law has an enforcement provision for that,” Prescott said in a statement to The Federalist. “Right now I know that the current administration is doing a good job of trying to make sure we have the southern border closed, but previous administrations have failed to do the job, so we want to make sure we have resources here within our state to enforce federal policy from a state standpoint. This is a tried-and-true method that has been taken up in other states as well.”
Rokita called the legislation “critically important.

” Illegal immigration is a top concern of Hoosier voters.
“It would directly address the concerns about illegal immigration that legislators and I hear from constituents all the time. This issue isn’t going away, and both my office and the General Assembly have an obligation to Hoosiers to act decisively to help keep illegal aliens out of our communities,” Rokita said in a statement to The Federalist. “HB 1531 would be a big step toward fulfilling that obligation.”
Two months into Trump’s presidency, law enforcement actions targeting illegal migrants are nowhere near levels needed to address the record-breaking numbers the Biden administration invited, overwhelming public services, housing, and some towns. Biden illegally admitted at least an estimated 10 million foreign citizens to compete with American workers. At the current rate, just 528,000 will be returned to their countries by the end of Trump’s final term.

The vast majority of illegal migrants paid cartels to help them enter the United States either in cash or in debt. This means their employment subsidizes international terrorism and promotes a vast network of indentured servitude that also undercuts wages for American workers.
Indiana U.S. Sen. Jim Banks told The Federalist that “Hoosiers expect us all to work together at the state, local and federal levels to support ICE and deport illegal criminals from our streets. This bill helps do that in a big way.”

The bill is also supported by the Indiana Republican Party’s national representatives Sen. Todd Young, and U.S. Reps. Marlin Stutzman, Mark Messmer, Jim Baird, and Erin Houchin. U.S. Rep. Rudy Yakym said H.B. 1531 “is the commonsense legislation needed to tackle the urgent challenges of illegal immigration head-on.”
“For too long, Indiana’s communities have shouldered the fallout of the failed Biden-Harris border policies,” Yakym said. “This bill is critical to strengthening our laws, protecting our communities, and safeguarding taxpayer dollars. I urge the Indiana General Assembly to get this done.”

Sheriff put DARE funds in his personal account for more than a decade — Tens of thousands of dollars unaccounted for

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — REAL News Michiana has learned that Sheriff William Redman put tens of thousands of dollars in DARE funds into his private bank account(s) for more than a decade. From 1997 until 2012, Redman put all of the funds for the program into his private account(s) with no oversight and no records showing how the money was spent. According to figures obtained by RNM through a public records request, it appears nearly $100,000 could have simply disappeared.

REAL News Michiana’s Clifton French uncovered the data while working for ABC57 in 2018, while Redman was running for his first term as Sheriff of the St. Joseph County Police Department. However, the ABC57 News Director at the time, Kelley Dickens, shelved the story for unknown reasons. Redman ended up winning the primary election by less than 20 votes that year.
RNM obtained those records again by requesting the emails and documents sent to Clifton French in 2018.
Redman started with the DARE program for the St. Joseph County Police Department in 1997. He kept all of the funds in his private accounts until February of 2012. According to a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department, Chief Robert Boits discovered Redman was using his personal account for the money in 2012 and demanded Redman start a county account.

How the discovery of the management of the money occured is hotly contested by several sources within the Sheriff’s Department. Some say the discovery was made through a standard audit. Others tell RNM that Boits made the discovery by hearing it from other deputies or staff, reprimanded Redman and forced him to create the county account to avoid bad publicity. Chief Boits cannot be questioned because he passed away in 2013.
According to DARE bank statements starting in February of 2012, the first deposits into the account were a $2,000 grant reimbursement plus 6 different donation deposits for approximately $2,600. By 2018, there was nearly $48,000 in the account. That means the program had an average surplus of approximately $8,000. Over a 13 year period, if extrapolated out with the same average surplus, Redman would have approximately $104,000 in DARE funds in his private bank account(s). All of it is unaccounted for. There is no account for how much money was taken in or how much money was spent and what that money was spent on.

Clifton French was told in 2018 there are no records from the time Redman was holding the money in his own account(s). RNM is still calling on Sheriff Redman to share his account information to show how and where the DARE money was spent as most banks retain records for longer than the 7-year retention period required by law.
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It’s very troublesome to me.” Kevin McGowan, Republican candidate for the St. Joseph County Sheriff, said. “If this is true, it’s a big disappointment to St. Joseph County as well as the Sheriff’s Department. Transparency and accountability are important when in comes to public safety and its leaders. I hope that promises of transparency from the current administration can play out and we will learn what exactly happened so anything that is amiss can be dealt with accordingly.”

A new property tax plan from Indiana House Republicans prevailed over qualms from Democrats on Monday, advancing to the House floor for further considerations after the 15-8 committee vote.
Senate Bill 1 would now let counties increase their local income taxes and — for the first time — allow cities to implement their own local income taxes. Under a massive amendment adopted Monday, counties would be able to levy an income tax up to 2.9%, up from the current 2.5% cap, while cities could go up to 1.2%. 
The legislation would also phase out, by 2030, the business personal property tax on anything purchased this year or later. 

Chief Justice John Roberts addressed ongoing speculation about his possible retirement during a public appearance in Buffalo, New York, this week.

The comments come four months into President Donald Trump’s second term, amid growing interest in whether Roberts would allow Trump to appoint another justice to the Supreme Court.

Roberts, appointed in 2005 by President George W. Bush, has served as Chief Justice for nearly two decades. His tenure has included pivotal decisions such as the legalization of gay marriage in 2015 and the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Speaking to a crowd of lawyers and legal observers, Roberts dismissed the idea that his departure was imminent. “I’m going out feet first,” he said, adding a touch of humor to his response, as reported by Trending Politics.
Roberts recounted a conversation he had with two individuals he trusts, in which he asked them to tell him when it might be time to retire. He said both responded, “‘It’s time to go.’ So I said, ‘Alright, never mind.’”

Though he joked about staying indefinitely, Roberts acknowledged that declining health could eventually factor into a decision to step down. He said if he became a burden to the court, that would signal the time to leave.
His comments were delivered during a celebration marking the 125th anniversary of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. However, his remarks on retirement quickly overshadowed the anniversary event.
Roberts addressed the broader topic of aging justices. When asked if those in their late 80s should still be deciding complex constitutional matters, he noted that such situations have occurred only “a handful of times.”
He said that while some justices may have stayed longer than advisable, such instances have typically resolved themselves without major disruption. Roberts did not mention specific names in this context.
At 70, Roberts is younger than Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Sonia Sotomayor. He stated that he still feels “pretty healthy” on most days, indicating no immediate reason to consider retirement.

The Chief Justice also mentioned that he visited his childhood home in Buffalo before attending the event, underscoring a personal connection to the location.

In response to a question about the rise in presidential impeachments, Roberts stated that impeachment should not be used to express disagreement with judicial decisions.
Calls for term limits for Supreme Court justices have increased in recent years. Despite this, Roberts and others on the bench have largely dismissed such proposals.
Justice Samuel Alito, who is part of the court’s conservative bloc, has also rejected the idea of stepping down during Trump’s term. Sources close to him insist that he does not view his role through a political lens.

A source quoted by the Wall Street Journaldenied rumors that Alito, age 74, is preparing to retire to allow Trump to appoint a younger conservative replacement.
Roberts’ public remarks reaffirmed his intention to remain on the court and emphasized a nonpartisan approach to judicial service.

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Indiana Governor Mike Braun has expressed intent to seek federal approval to establish tolls on Indiana's interstate highways, including I-80/94 and I-65, as a means to fund road maintenance and infrastructure improvements. This plan stems from House Bill 1461, signed into law on May 1, 2025, which allows the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to request a federal waiver from the Federal Highway Administration to implement tolls on interstate highways. The bill, authored by State Representative Jim Pressel, removes a previous restriction that prohibited tolling within 75 miles of existing toll roads, such as the Indiana Toll Road (I-90), thereby enabling tolls on major highways across the state, including those in Northwest Indiana.

Braun has justified the need for tolling by citing declining revenue from Indiana’s 35-cents-per-gallon gasoline tax and the additional 7% sales tax on fuel, largely due to increased fuel efficiency in vehicles. According to the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency, tolling could generate approximately $4.2 billion in the first five years and up to $38.2 billion between 2029 and 2050, addressing an estimated $900 million annual shortfall in local transportation funding and a $2.4 billion annual need to improve roads and bridges rated as “poor” or “failed.”

The tolling plan has sparked controversy. Critics, including some lawmakers and residents, argue it imposes a financial burden on drivers, particularly in regions like Lake and Porter counties, where interstates are heavily used for daily commutes. Attempts to exempt these counties from tolling were defeated, and amendments to remove the tolling provision failed. Opponents, such as Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., have warned of political backlash, predicting it could lead to a Democratic governor in future elections. There is also uncertainty about federal approval, given recent resistance to tolling initiatives, such as U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s 2025 halt to New York’s congestion pricing program.

Braun has not detailed specific toll rates or implementation timelines, and his office has been reserved in public statements. However, he has indicated openness to tolling as a necessary measure to maintain Indiana’s “main arteries,” with potential reliance on electronic tolling systems to avoid traditional toll booths. The plan’s progression depends on federal authorization, which Braun suggested he would pursue under the administration of President Donald Trump.

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