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| Haiti |
| Action Alert! Temporary Protected Status for Haitians Now! [Recent Deportation of over 30,000 Undocumented Haitians Underscores Discriminatory U.S. Policy towards Haiti] February 2009 SUMMARY: Haiti is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Last year, during a one month period, four hurricanes devastated the country. According to conservative estimates, over 800 people were killed and the total damage was equivalent to 15 percent of Haiti’s gross domestic product (GDP). Countless others were reported missing and injured. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have now issued deportation orders to over 30,000 undocumented Haitians and are returning them to a country still struggling to rebuild and not able to provide the critical social safety nets needed for people to survive. Urgent action is needed to halt the arrests of these deportees. Call the Department of Homeland Security Comment Line today at 202-282-8495 and urge them to immediately halt deportations, grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians in the United States and conduct a full review of its policy towards Haiti. BACKGROUND: Temporary protected status (TPS) is granted by the United States (Homeland Security Department) to eligible nationals of countries that cannot safely return to their homelands because of armed conflict, environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions. Haiti clearly fits this description. Yet, unlike countries such as El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Sudan, and Sierra Leone, Haitians are treated differently and are not recipients of TPS. For instance, many Hondurans and Nicaraguans are still getting TPS from a natural disaster (Hurricane Mitch) that occurred in 1998 and Salvadorians are still benefitting from TPS received following earthquakes in El Salvador in 2001. The Haitian government has repeatedly sustained that it cannot accept deportees until the country is in a better condition and is declining to issue travel documents. Haitian authorities are reportedly in talks with the Department of Homeland Security to resolve the issue and to advocate for TPS. ICE officials, however, continue to adopt an aggressive position and maintain they are only enforcing the law and not treating Haitians more harshly than nationals of other countries. Of the deportees, approximately 600 are in ICE custody. The thousands remaining will be expected to leave voluntarily and branded as “fugitives” otherwise. The government already has "fugitive alien teams" across the country ready to capture people. ICE argues that the Haitian government is forcing people to suffer for longer periods of time in crowded detention centers because they are resisting the deportations. Instead of acknowledging their policy is humane, they are playing the blame game and are indifferent to the consequences this will have on Haiti’s already fragile economy. Meanwhile, in a country where over half of the population is already living below the extreme poverty line and the |
| risk of a child dying before the age of five is 86%, the ability for Haitians in the United States to work, pay taxes, and send remittances to relatives back home means the difference between life and death—particularly in this troubled world economy. At a time where fair immigration reform is badly needed, the current situation reveals that Haitians are experiencing more of the same unjust policies of the past. Several members of Congress have criticized the Department of Homeland Security's decision to arbitrarily resume deportations in December 2008 (after temporarily halting deportations for three months last year after the hurricanes). Haitian activists and immigrants are outraged at the decision and need our solidarity. At this critical time, Haitians deserve the same protection granted to other nationals in similar situations. ACT TODAY! Call on the Obama Administration to halt inhumane deportations to storm-ravaged Haiti and grant Haitians TPS now! Call the Department of Homeland Security Comment Line today at 202-282-8495 and urge them to immediately halt deportations and grant Temporary Protected Status to Haitians in the United States and conduct a full review of its policy towards Haiti. TransAfrica Forum is the leading U.S. advocacy organization for Africa and the African Diaspora in U.S. foreign policy. TransAfrica Forum helped lead the world protest against apartheid in South Africa and today works for human and economic justice for African people on the continent of Africa, in Latin America and in the Caribbean. Contact us: TransAfrica Forum, 1629 K Street, N.W., Suite 1100, Washington, D.C., 2006, 202-223-1960, www.transafricaforum.org. TAKE ACTION! Contact Homeland Security today! |
| Haiti is the first Country to abolish slavery in the western hemisphere. |
| Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable from Haiti is the Founder of Haiti. |
| The only Country in the western hemisphere to under go successful slave revolution. |
| Agency fights to change immigration policy toward Haiti Click Here |
| Garvey's Voice Get your copy Here |
| Thank you for your partnership. The Haitian Alliance, Inc. is a registered 501 (c) (3) |
| Pictures of Haiti |
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| Ezili Danto's Counter Narrative Enter Here |
| Haiti: US Congress members warn Clinton to include Lavalas in elections by Randall White Haiti Action.net - Port au Prince, Haiti — "President John Kennedy famously remarked, 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.' Running transparently unfair, exclusive elections, with the support of the international community, will leave many Haitians to conclude that they have no choice but to protest the elections and the consequent government through social disruption. That disruption threatens to severely limit such a government's ability to govern, and imperils the United States' past and future investments in Haiti's reconstruction." - Urge Secretary Clinton to Support Free, Fair and Inclusive Elections in Haiti Congresswoman Maxine Waters. After being virtually silent on electoral justice in Haiti since 2005, Congresswoman Maxine Waters is now attempting to get her colleagues to sign on to a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging her to withhold US funding for the November 28 presidential and parliamentary elections in Haiti that are designed exclude the largest political organization in the country. In a recent OpEd in the Miami Herald former Counsel to the President of Haiti, Ira Kurzban wrote: "Imagine if the Federal Election Commission in the United States disqualified the Democratic and Republican parties from the 2012 presidential election and declared that only candidates of minor parties could run. No one would consider it a fair election, and certainly the people of the United States would rise up, claiming the election is unconstitutional and undemocratic. Yet the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Haiti on Nov. 28 are just that -- unfair, unconstitutional and undemocratic. The country's Provisional Electoral Council, which itself is not constitutionally composed, is refusing to allow the country's majority party — Famni Lavalas (Lavalas Family) — to participate in the election. Thirteen other legitimate political parties are also being excluded from parliamentary elections... Follow this link for more: Haiti: US Congress members warn.. |
| The Haitian Alliance, Inc. Transforming Haiti one child at a time, one tree at a time www.transformhaiti.org |
| Check out the blog post: 'Haiti 1 Year After the Earthquake' Let's not forget about Haiti. Read up on recent developments. Blog post added by Editor: January 12 marks the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. One year later, reconstruct... Blog post link: Haiti 1 Year After the Earthquake |
| Carib Life Central Check out the blog post 'US Resumes Deportation of Haitians' Update on Haitian Immigration policy in the USA Blog post added by Editor: The immigration authorities of the United States will resume the expulsions, temporarily suspended after the earthquake of January 12, of t... Blog post link: US Resumes Deportation of Haitians |
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| Sunday, April 28, 2013, 8:00am HOWELL "Our People" PARK. 983 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd S.W. West End - Atlanta, GA 30310. |
| Gigi Polycarpe The Bethlehem Home for Children Jeremie, Haiti. www.bethlehemhome.org Support via donating clothing, medicines, books and of course financial support.. Visit UNIA-ACL Division 429, in Chicago, for more information |
| AFRHAITI "Melanin - Our Pride - Their Envy" An educative skit-like fashion show telling our'story Through Afro-centric arts, images, musics, and uplifting words. THE ARTS EXCHANGE (Paul Robeson Theater) 750 Kalb Street S.E. Atlanta, GA 30312 Sunday - 22 JUNE 2014 Doors Open @6:00PM Please "RESERVE" your ticket early! Share and invite your families, friends, fellowships, or fans to come re-live "our" essences again... Ayibobo, AFRHAITI PRODUCTION, INC - (A.P.I). (404) 482-1622 AfrHaitiProduction@gmail.com |
| Enter Here for the: Sovereign Haiti Initiative |
| The UNIA-ACL Ambassador of Haiti: |
