The Trump administration is using Haiti's "widespread" gang violence, along with the State Department's recent decision to designate several of the country's most powerful armed groups as "foreign terrorists,

The Trump administration said Friday it is terminating temporary protected status, or TPS, for over half a million immigrants from Haiti who will face deportation when the relief is set to end in September.

The Department of Homeland Security says that it is terminating legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, setting them up for potential deportation.