I did not have a chance to post in April and by the time I am done writing this, May. What does the US Department of Homeland Security have to do with Haitian literature? Absolutely nothing. However I could not sit idly by and not speak my piece about what the DHS is actively doing in regards to Haiti and its temporary protected status (TPS). The many contributions that Haiti has made to the United States, from the Revolutionary War to the founding of the city of Chicago should account for something and yet it does not. The new Trump administration has its eyes set on removing Haitians from the United States and yet this is a far cry from the “criminals and drug dealers” that they originally wanted to go after. Thinking about what they believe is hurting my brain. The bottom line is of all the folks in the US, why go after Haitian people? It makes no sense. It especially doesn’t make sense when during the presidential campaign, Trump went down to Miami and made promises to the Haitian community there promising to do what he could to help Haiti and its people; to put an end to the obvious neglect and exploitation by the Clinton Global Initiative and others who have done nothing except exploit Haiti’s plight for years. Haiti is not an experiment. It is its own sovereign nation borne on the backs of a people who yearned for freedom at any cost. There must be a movement where Haitians, those on the mainland and those of the diaspora, actually vow to correct the centuries of infighting and exploitation that have plagued Haiti since its arduous birth.