HAITIANS STATUS?

The Temporary Protected Status program provides the sort of  assistance the United States should be-

Proud to extend to foreigners fleeing civil unrest, violence or natural disasters.

Enated by Congress in 1990, it currently offers a safe and legal harbor to 437,000  people from 10 countries.

Many stay for a long time, their status regularly extended because of continued turmoil in their homelands.

That, alas, is a far cry from the  spirit of the Trump administration. On Monday, the Trump administration ended the program's protection of about-

59,000 Haitians when their country was devastated by an earthquake in 2010.

Their stay has been regularly extended, but in May, John Kelly, then Secretary of homeland security and now the White House chief of staff, gave them only six more months, explicitly to get ready to go home.

They must now leave by July, 2019.

By any reasonable measure, Haiti is not ready to take them back. The destitute country has never fully recovered from the 2010 earthquake or the cholera epidemic that followed.