DeWine says Trump plan to deport Haitians is a mistake
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine told CBS News that Trump’s plan to increase Haitian migrant arrests and deportations would send people back to “hell.”
By Deshawn Carter · Sports Writer
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said President Trump’s plan to deport Haitians by increasing arrests and removals is the wrong move, telling CBS News that Haiti is too dangerous a place to send people back to now.
DeWine, a Republican, made the comments in an extended interview with CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez. CBS News described Trump’s plan as an effort to ramp up arrests and deportations of Haitian migrants.
“Haiti is hell today,” DeWine said in the interview, according to CBS News. “So you’d be sending people … back to hell.”
The remark puts DeWine publicly at odds with the president’s deportation push as it relates to Haitian migrants, including those who have been the focus of debate in Ohio. CBS News also promoted a related segment under the description that the Ohio governor called Trump’s plan to deport Haitians in Springfield “a mistake.”
What did Mike DeWine say about deporting Haitians?
DeWine’s message was blunt: he said deporting Haitian migrants under Trump’s plan would be a mistake because of conditions in Haiti. His warning, as reported by CBS News, was that removals would send people back to a country he described as “hell” today.
The governor did not frame his criticism as a broad immigration argument in the CBS News summary. The specific point reported by the network was his objection to returning Haitians to Haiti under current conditions.
What is Trump’s plan to deport Haitians?
CBS News described Trump’s plan as one that would increase arrests and deportations of Haitian migrants. The network did not provide additional operational details in its summary of the interview.
The interview clip was listed by CBS News as a 15-minute extended conversation with DeWine. A shorter CBS News video promoted nearby carried the headline that the Ohio governor said deporting Haitians was “a mistake.”
DeWine’s comments add a sharp state-level Republican objection to a federal immigration plan aimed at Haitian migrants. The key dispute, as presented by CBS News, is whether the U.S. should deport people to Haiti while the governor says conditions there are dire.
CBS News published the extended interview on its video platform and identified Montoya-Galvez as the interviewer. The network’s description did not include a response from Trump to DeWine’s criticism.
This story draws on original reporting from CBS News.