Haiti

Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins condemned the Trump administration's decision to appeal a federal judge's ruling protecting Haitian immigrants nationwide from being deported.

For now, a federal judge's 11th-hour ruling blocks President Trump from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians — but he looks determined to assure their deportation back to gang-ravaged Haiti.

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians under Temporary Protected Status woke up relieved after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending the immigration status. Haitian TPS holders are still in limbo.

The Florida Immigrant Coalition hailed Monday night's decision to block the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrant as "a critical victory for families, workers, and communities across the country — especially here in Florida."

The Trump administration wants to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitians back to Haiti — where a million and a half people are already refugees from gang violence. Legal experts spoke on WLRN’s South Florida Roundup about the resources and options for the community being affected by this decision.

The number of sexual abuse cases being treated at a clinic in Haiti’s capital has tripled in the past four years as gang violence surges across the troubled Caribbean country.

A member of Haiti's transitional presidential council has announced that a majority of the panel has voted to fire the country's embattled Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as the country's political chaos deepens.

The U.S. Embassy posted Wednesday on X that such a maneuver would undermine efforts to establish "a minimal level of security and stability" in Haiti, and said the U.S. would take "appropriate measures" to respond.

COMMENTARY With no conquest booty like oil to distract him, President Trump could focus the capture of gang leaders in Haiti on rescuing the country's republic — and win his Nobel Peace Prize.

On the 16th anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, Miami's Haitian community weighs fear, exile, or return to chaos

Festive Favorites: The Haitian New Year's Day tradition of soup joumou or pumpkin soup is said to date back to January 1, 1804, the day Haitian slave and revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti’s independence from its French colonizers.

Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, has made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list. The syncopated rhythm, created in the 1950s, wafts from bars, bedrooms and businesses across Haiti, lifting spirits and providing solace from the country’s grinding poverty and soaring gang violence.