On February 2, federal Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to rescind Temporary Protected Status for thousands of Haitian immigrants in the United States. In the judgement, Reyes rebuked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for claiming that refugees are “foreign invaders,” “killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies” and that they “snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS.”
Similar talking points about Haitian immigrants have circulated among right-wing media for years, particularly in the months before the 2024 election, when pundits boosted unfounded allegations that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Conservative media figures have called TPS a “fiction,” baselessly accused migrants of mounting an “invasion,” claimed they’re “eating the dogs, the cats, raping, burning, murdering,” and said they are “draining city resources” and “pushing health care services to the brink.”
Below we contrast Reyes’ commentary with the right-wing media talking points it debunks or counters.
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