Joint letter to President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to immediately end the war on Black immigrants

Right now, thousands of Haitians are stranded in treacherous conditions in Mexican border towns. There, Haitian migrants are facing open violence from CBP that is reminiscent of the horrific practices endured by their enslaved ancestors centuries ago--photos of officers using reins for horses on migrants simply trying to purchase water and food as they wait for the chance to seek protection. Under international law, Haitians have the right to seek asylum in the U.S.; instead, they have faced insurmountable barriers to entry due to Title 42. More than two thousand Haitians already in the country have been deported under the Biden Administration, including pregnant women and toddlers. Haitians are being deported back to the same dire conditions that have been internationally categorized as a humanitarian crisis, spurring a new designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by the Biden Administration a mere month ago. TPS for Haiti protects Haitians living in the U.S. from deportation; it is wholly illogical and unequivocally cruel to now expel and deport thousands of Haitians arriving at the border to those very same conditions.