GOP gov in state where Trump claimed Haitians are eating the dogs rips move to yank migrants temporary status

WASHINGTON — GOP Ohio Gov.Mike DeWine on Sunday urged President Trump to reconsider his decision to yank temporary protective status for thousands of Haitians, who the prez once claimed are “eating the dogs.’’DeWine — whose state has more than 10,000 Haitians with that status — acknowledged that the US Supreme Court ruling last week allows Trump to legally proceed with removing the protection and paves the way for mass deportations.

But he said that doesn’t make it right.“You cannot fly into Port-au-Prince today,” DeWine told CNN’s “State of the Union,” referring to the crime-riddled island nation’s capital.“The reason they can’t go in there is because these gang leaders who control a good part of Haiti today, shoot at the planes when they come in.“It’s a very, very dangerous place,” DeWine said in arguing for giving fleeing Haitians refugee status in the US.“Just this last week, several more schoolchildren were killed just because gangs were shooting back and forth.

Gangs control a significant part of Haiti,” he said.Temporary protection status, or TPS, allows eligible migrants from countries deemed unsafe to have temporary status in the US and seek work authorization.It has been in effect for Haitians since 2010, when an earthquake rocked the country.About 350,000 Haitians are living in the US under TPS.

Many of those who live in Ohio are in the Springfield area.Overall, there were more than 1.3 million people from 17 countries who were receiving TPS protection in the US as of March of last year, according to the National Immigration Forum.Last year, the lower courts blocked the Trump administration’s move to terminate TPS designation for thousands of Haitians and Syrians.But the Supreme Court concluded last week that the statute behind TPS allows “no judicial review of any determination … with respect to the … termination’ of a TPS designation.”So the high court rejected plaintiffs’ complaints that form...