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15:41Now PlayingRoughly 348,000 Haitians officially lost Temporary Protected Status this week, after the D.C. Circuit let the termination take effect with no further stay and no eleventh-hour legislative rescue. It's the end of a road that started with the Supreme Court ruling in June that DHS's decision to end TPS isn't something courts can even review. DHS says Haiti's conditions have "improved" enough for people to safely return. But the same administration's own State Department keeps Haiti at a Level 4 Do Not Travel advisory, its highest risk category, and the President himself has called Haiti a "shithole" and a "hellhole" on the record. Former homicide prosecutor Melba Pearson, aka the Resident Legal Diva, breaks down the Supreme Court ruling that took courts out of the fight, and lays out exactly what's happening on the ground in Haiti right now — gang control of the capital, mass displacement, and a sexual violence crisis targeting women and girls — that makes DHS's "safe to return" claim impossible to square with reality.
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