Trump's Latest Target: Haitians

New presidential administrations review old policies and often replace them with new policies. That's part of democratic governance, especially in a nation closely divided by partisanship and ideology. The practice is long familiar, but the Donald Trump administration can't help adding its own uniquely sinister twist.

By May 23, the administration is expected to issue its decision on renewing Temporary Protected Status to more than 50,000 Haitian refugees who have resided in the U.S. while serial calamities, beginning with a massive earthquake in 2010, engulfed Haiti. More than two hundred thousand died in the earthquake, which also destroyed homes, schools, vital infrastructure and much of Port-au-Prince, the capital. A cholera outbreak followed. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew walloped the island.