End of Temporary Protected Status could send 50,000 back to Haiti

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End of Temporary Protected Status could send 50,000 back to Haiti

Farah Larrieux came to Miami in 2005 because, as a TV reporter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, she felt threatened during the violent political turmoil of that period.

In 2010, her visa about to expire, Ms. Larrieux was facing deportation when a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti, wrecking the country and killing more than 200,000 people. The Obama administration soon granted Temporary Protected Status—T.P.S.—to some 50,000 Haitians living in the United States. This meant they would not be forced to return to their country under those horrific conditions.

Ms. Larrieux was among them. “I’ve made a productive life here,” she says, pointing to community service and achievement awards on her wall, some from her time as the host of a Haitian affairs show on local public television.

T.P.S. for Haitians like Ms. Larrieux was renewed every 18 months, and not just because of the earthquake. A cholera epidemic, last year’s Hurricane Matthew devastation and new political upheaval—Haiti was without an elected president for a year until Jovenel Moïse was sworn in last February—have made Haiti not only a dicey place to return to but one not ready to take back 50,000 people at once.

But the Trump administration now believes otherwise. For the moment—unless President Trump changes his mind this month—it is poised to let T.P.S. run out for Haitians on Jan. 22. They will then have to go back to Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

“You feel like your life is collapsing,” says Ms. Larrieux.

Almost 300,000 others from Latin America and the Caribbean may lose their T.P.S. benefit next year and face deportation. They include 200,000 people from El Salvador and 60,000 from Honduras; the administration has already announced it will end T.P.S. status for 2,500 from Nicaragua. Many, like Ms. Larrieux, live in South Florida, which is seeing the most energetic efforts to solve the T.P.S. crisis.

Representative Carlos Curbelo, a Republican from Miami, introduced a bill last month to waive deportation for current T.P.S. holders and put them on a path to legal U.S. residency.

Florida’s Catholic Church has also weighed in strongly. Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, a Spanish and Haitian Creole speaker and longtime immigrants’ advocate, called T.P.S. termination “highly objectionable.” Archbishop Wenski is urging Mr. Trump to extend T.P.S. for Haitian and Central American recipients long enough to let legislation like Mr. Curbelo’s pass.

But passage is hardly certain—especially given the anti-immigration mood of the G.O.P.-controlled Congress, where most members consider T.P.S. unimportant to their constituents. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Miami who is set to co-sponsor a bill similar to Mr. Curbelo’s and is a critic of Mr. Trump’s anti-T.P.S. campaign, said that on Capitol Hill “there’s not much appetite to help” T.P.S. recipients.

When Congress created T.P.S. in 1990, it unfortunately failed to wed humanitarian intentions to political practicality. Preventing people from nations like Haiti or Sudan from being cast back into natural disaster or political mayhem was of course the right thing to do. But few seemed to appreciate the real potential for Temporary Protected Status becoming a quasi-permanent situation—one that would sooner or later become a target of anti-immigration outbursts like Trumpism.

Still, sending those T.P.S. beneficiaries home seems just as impractical, if not cruel—even when circumstances in their countries improve. Just because Honduras’s astronomical murder rate has dipped in recent years, for example, it does not mean it is safe for Honduran T.P.S. recipients to return to barrios where bloodthirsty gangs known as maras will continue to target them for recruitment, extortion or worse.

Even if that were no longer a risk, there are other reasons for letting T.P.S. holders stay in the United States. Many have put down deep roots in places like South Florida and are important community fixtures: tax-paying business owners, teachers and employees. More important to U.S. foreign policy interests, the money they send home is part of a multibillion-dollar remittance flow that helps countries like Haiti recover more fully from the very catastrophes T.P.S. was set up to address.

So while T.P.S. may have been ill thought out in the long term—and needs to be replaced with a more common-sense approach—Mr. Trump’s effort to bury it looks ill advised as well. As Ms. Larrieux points out, a lot of productive lives are involved.


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Activists say Haiti is not ready to receive citizens stripped of TPS

Immigrant advocacy groups criticized the announcement by the US government. of not renewing the Temporary Protection Statute (TPS) to Haitians, considering that the Caribbean country is not prepared for this decision.

"To say that Haiti is able to receive tens of thousands of people is simply to live in an alternate political reality," spokesperson for the America's Voice organization, José Dante Parra, told Efe.

In his opinion, Haiti is not in a position to receive the 58,706 beneficiaries of this immigration protection who live in the country and who received the TPS after the catastrophic earthquake suffered in 2010 and which caused some 300,000 deaths and displaced one and a half million people. population.

The Government of Donald Trump announced on Monday the end of the TPS for Haiti and gave an 18-month margin to their beneficiaries to return to their country or seek an alternative from July 22, 2019.

This decision "tears apart countless families," according to Marleine Bastien, executive director of Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami (Haitian Women of Miami).

Bastien urged Congress to consider "the regional instability that would occur by sending such a large number of people" back to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Therefore, he asked them, before July 2019, to approve a law that gives them a permanent migratory status in order to recognize the contributions of the Haitian beneficiaries of the TPS to the United States.

Congress "should take this moment to approve a permanent solution that gives them a path to permanent residence and, finally, citizenship," he said.

This would prevent a new "disaster" in the country, which, as indicated by Parra, has suffered three hurricanes in the past two years, as well as a cholera epidemic.

"Forwarding Haitians to their country of origin is to incite another disaster, whether due to famine or public order," lamented Parra, who said that the Caribbean country "definitely" does not meet the requirements "security and recovery of natural disasters "for the TPS to be terminated.

According to the activist, the option they have left is in the "legislative way", in which a couple of bills have already been presented.

"I hope that the Republican Party, which has the majority in Congress, will take these bills to a vote, so that a permanent solution is given to these people," said Parra, who assured that the deportation of more than 58,000 Haitians would mean a "very big" economic loss for the US

In that sense, he said, only in the state of Florida, the Haitian community contributes about 1.2 billion dollars a year to the state GDP.

The decision to end the TPS for Haiti comes just two weeks after the US it will also decide with Nicaragua, to which 5,349 immigrants are welcome, to which it gave, in that case, 12 months to prepare its return before January 5, 2019.

In the coming months the US Government it will also have to pronounce on the TPS to 86,000 Hondurans and 263,000 Salvadorans, according to the latest available official data, from the end of 2016.

computer translated from: https://www.listindiario.com/las-mu...do-para-recibir-ciudadanos-despojados-del-tps
 

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The fact that Haiti claims they're "not ready" is not our concern. Get ready.

They're Haitian citizens.

TPS: Temporary being the key word here
 

ctrob

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When has Haiti ever been ready?



Not in a long long time. But they did recover enough to put up some really nice gov't buildings. Believe me, I'm all for doing things right the first time if you're going to construct something. But they have people hurting, and people that need to come back home and to find jobs when they get there. They should have been concentrating on that. Not building monuments to themselves - that could have come later.

Those four new buildings are probably equivalent of a half billion usd out of Haitian coffers, if not more.
 

Caonabo

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Here is the perfect opportunity for them to now have a military consisting of 50,300 persons....funded by the Chinese.
 

drstock

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The Haitian government also say they are going to splash out on a new army. However, whatever you think about the way the Haitian government spends what little money it has, they certainly are in no position to receive 50,000+ people within less than two years. There is already a severe lack of jobs and housing.
 

USA DOC

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....those Haitians that are in the USA, that will be sent back.....Do you think they would rather be in Haiti or Dominican Republic??
 

Caonabo

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The Haitian government also say they are going to splash out on a new army. However, whatever you think about the way the Haitian government spends what little money it has, they certainly are in no position to receive 50,000+ people within less than two years. There is already a severe lack of jobs and housing.

That was the reason for my reference of 50,300 persons. I believe their new army is currently staffed by 300.
 

Caonabo

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None of these 50,000 people possess knowledge or skills that can lead to the future development for their home nation?
 

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Activists say Haiti is not ready to receive citizens stripped of TPS

Immigrant advocacy groups criticized the announcement by the US government. of not renewing the Temporary Protection Statute (TPS) to Haitians, considering that the Caribbean country is not prepared for this decision.

"To say that Haiti is able to receive tens of thousands of people is simply to live in an alternate political reality," spokesperson for the America's Voice organization, José Dante Parra, told Efe.

In his opinion, Haiti is not in a position to receive the 58,706 beneficiaries of this immigration protection who live in the country and who received the TPS after the catastrophic earthquake suffered in 2010 and which caused some 300,000 deaths and displaced one and a half million people. population.

The Government of Donald Trump announced on Monday the end of the TPS for Haiti and gave an 18-month margin to their beneficiaries to return to their country or seek an alternative from July 22, 2019.

This decision "tears apart countless families," according to Marleine Bastien, executive director of Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami (Haitian Women of Miami).

Bastien urged Congress to consider "the regional instability that would occur by sending such a large number of people" back to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Therefore, he asked them, before July 2019, to approve a law that gives them a permanent migratory status in order to recognize the contributions of the Haitian beneficiaries of the TPS to the United States.

Congress "should take this moment to approve a permanent solution that gives them a path to permanent residence and, finally, citizenship," he said.

This would prevent a new "disaster" in the country, which, as indicated by Parra, has suffered three hurricanes in the past two years, as well as a cholera epidemic.

"Forwarding Haitians to their country of origin is to incite another disaster, whether due to famine or public order," lamented Parra, who said that the Caribbean country "definitely" does not meet the requirements "security and recovery of natural disasters "for the TPS to be terminated.

According to the activist, the option they have left is in the "legislative way", in which a couple of bills have already been presented.

"I hope that the Republican Party, which has the majority in Congress, will take these bills to a vote, so that a permanent solution is given to these people," said Parra, who assured that the deportation of more than 58,000 Haitians would mean a "very big" economic loss for the US

In that sense, he said, only in the state of Florida, the Haitian community contributes about 1.2 billion dollars a year to the state GDP.

The decision to end the TPS for Haiti comes just two weeks after the US it will also decide with Nicaragua, to which 5,349 immigrants are welcome, to which it gave, in that case, 12 months to prepare its return before January 5, 2019.

In the coming months the US Government it will also have to pronounce on the TPS to 86,000 Hondurans and 263,000 Salvadorans, according to the latest available official data, from the end of 2016.

computer translated from: https://www.listindiario.com/las-mu...do-para-recibir-ciudadanos-despojados-del-tps

I wonder how this figure is arrived at?
 

ROLLOUT

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I suspect that all or most of them will not return voluntarily...life is way too good for them in florida.
 

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Haiti is still suffering from French colonial influence just like Quebec, the Ivory Coast, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan, Niger and Syria - to name a few. Had Haiti been colonized by the Brits it would be clean, organized and affluent like the Bahamas.

Les Francais pourraient bousiller un reve humide.
 

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Thousands of them have already fled to Canada. They are entering illegally into Quebec and claiming refugee status. The local government can't handle this mass infusion but in the name of political correctness they keep coming and not much is being done to stop it.
If there was ever a need for a wall this is the place.
 

Caonabo

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Haiti is still suffering from French colonial influence just like Quebec, the Ivory Coast, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan, Niger and Syria - to name a few. Had Haiti been colonized by the Brits it would be clean, organized and affluent like the Bahamas.

Les Francais pourraient bousiller un reve humide.

I must have missed the Haitian version of the Champs-Élysées.
 
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Maybe, Haiti will get lucky and have anotherEARTHQUAKE. Then the U.S. will take another 50-100,000 refugees out of pity for the suffering...we always are suckers for suffering :smoke:
 

chico bill

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Maybe, Haiti will get lucky and have anotherEARTHQUAKE. Then the U.S. will take another 50-100,000 refugees out of pity for the suffering...we always are suckers for suffering :smoke:


Not a good think to even suggest. But of course the Clintons lined their pockets off the Haitian suffering.
 

Ecoman1949

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Thousands of them have already fled to Canada. They are entering illegally into Quebec and claiming refugee status. The local government can't handle this mass infusion but in the name of political correctness they keep coming and not much is being done to stop it.
If there was ever a need for a wall this is the place.

Actually Melphis, it’s not that big a deal. The Haitian exodus from the US to Canada has been going on for a while. They get processed once they cross the border and the majority are sent back. Canadian government representatives are hosting public meetings in large Haitian enclaves in the US telling them not to come because they won’t be getting permanent residency. The message is getting through slowly as word from Haitians rejected in Canada gets back to Haitians in the US. We have the same refugee vetting procedure as Australia. The Trumpster is actually envious of our system. He would like to see the same system implemented in the US. Never saw that one coming!