Haitian
Americanadjective
noun
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a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Haiti
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the creolized French spoken in Haiti
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American sentiment was turning against newcomers, whether Vietnamese refugees, Cuban and Haitian boat people, Central Americans fleeing civil wars or Mexicans looking for economic opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Sister Carren Herring asked as the Haitian man walked toward the field office, where he would reemerge from hours later with a GPS tracker clamped around an ankle.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Dominican Republic’s policies on Haitian immigrants and refugees are significantly tougher than those of the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Chamber of Commerce is urging an extension of TPS for Haitian nationals “to prevent significant disruption to America’s workforce and avoid an unnecessary humanitarian crisis.”
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Cange no longer looked like a miserable encampment of refugees, Farmer thought dryly, just a typical, extremely poor Haitian village.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
The Journal reported this week that 93,000 Haitians on temporary protected status, or TPS, had been working in Florida, including thousands of cooks and nursing assistants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
This week, millions of Haitians lost their temporary protected status, which shielded certain people from deportation on the grounds that they’d be sent back to horrible situations.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
The president of the New York Nurses Association Nancy Hagans told AFP that thousands of her members would be unable to work following the end of TPS for Haitians from the end of Monday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
While Thursday’s decision dealt with Haitians and Syrians, its rationale could affect up to 1.3 million noncitizens who are protected by Temporary Protected Status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
In Sister Julianna’s company, on tours of North Carolina tobacco plantations, Farmer met a number of Haitians.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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