Haitian Group ‘Unequivocally’ Condemns Trump’s Anti-Black and Anti-Immigrant Attacks
SAN DIEGO, CA – The California-based Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) Tuesday “unequivocally” condemned United States President Donald Trump’s latest barrage of anti-Black, anti-immigrant attacks, including his recent remarks referring to Somali immigrants as “garbage” while asserting that the US “does not want them in our country.
Guerline Jozef“His rhetoric, reported widely in national media, is not simply insulting. It constitutes state-sanctioned dehumanisation and reinforces a longstanding pattern of xenophobic and white-nationalist policymaking,” HBA Executive Director Guerline Jozef told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).
Jozef also denounced the Trump administration’s decision to pause all pending green card applications for people from 19 countries, including Haiti, saying “the list is overwhelmingly made up of African, Caribbean, Arab and Muslim nations.
“This mass suspension, impacting families who have lived in the United States for years, working, studying, and completing every legal requirement, amounts to collective punishment rooted in racial bias rather than legitimate national-security concerns.
“The decision further exposes the administration’s commitment to systematically excluding Black and Brown immigrants from the Global South,” she added.
Jozef said equally troubling is the administration’s “exploitation of a recent tragedy- the killing of two National Guard Officers in Washington D.C – as a pretext for advancing an extreme, isolationist immigration agenda.
“Rather than pursuing justice for the victims, the administration has used this incident to justify broad and indiscriminate immigration crackdowns against millions of people who bear no connection to the event,” she said. “Haitian Bridge rejects this manipulation as both immoral and politically opportunistic.
“This cynical maneuver is part of a broader strategy to criminalize migrants, consolidate executive power, and dismantle asylum and immigration pathways for communities from the Global South.
“ What we are witnessing is not new—it is the continuation of a historical pattern in which US policy devalues Black lives domestically and internationally. Calling Somalis ‘garbage’ reflects a worldview that also cages Haitian children at the border, fast-tracks mass deportations, destabilizes economies through foreign policy, and then blames migrants for seeking refuge,” Jozef said.
She noted that, in his first term, Trump had referred to Haiti and African countries as “shit hole countries.
“This is structural, intentional, and violent. Haitian Bridge stands firmly with Somalis, Haitians, African, Muslims, and all Global South communities targeted by this escalating campaign of discrimination.
“We call on the United States Congress, civil-rights organizations, and the international community to condemn these actions and work to reverse the green-card freeze,” she added. “We urge philanthropic partners to sustain and expand support for frontline immigrant justice organizations, especially those serving migrants from the Global South.
“Haitian Bridge remains committed to defending our communities through litigation, advocacy, direct services, and mobilization,” Jozef continued. “We will not allow racist rhetoric or xenophobic policy to define the lives, dignity, or future of the people we serve.”
Over the weekend, Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke also condemned what she described as Trump’s “racist attack” on Somalia-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
“Between falling asleep in his own Cabinet meeting, President Trump somehow finds the time to launch hateful attacks against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants in Minnesota,” Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, who represents the 9th Congressional District in Brooklyn, New York, told CMC.
