Julie Bermane, sitting, waits in line for more than three hours to speak with a lawyer regarding her legal status
Posted on 01/19/2010 7:51:48 PM PST by GreaterSwiss
Miami — More than 100 Haitians crammed inside a Catholic church Tuesday to ask questions about a federal government designation that will allow possibly hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian immigrants to work in the U.S. and send money home during the next 18 months.
Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas said Haitians will be able to start filing their applications for the Temporary Protected Status on Thursday, the day official notice of the program is expected to be published in the Federal Register. Only those in the U.S. before the earthquake hit their Caribbean homeland a week ago will be eligible......
Julie Bermane, 19, of Miami, said she has lived in the U.S. since she was 3 but because she was here illegally has been unable to go to college or get a job.
"There's a lot of things in my life that I want to do, but this stuff has been holding me back," she said. If her application is granted, she said, "I can go out and see the world."
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There is NO NEED for Haitians to come here. We can help them in their own country.
Julie Bermane, sitting, waits in line for more than three hours to speak with a lawyer regarding her legal status
“There is NO NEED for Haitians to come here. We can help them in their own country.”
Exactly.
There is no reason to bring them here. They will never leave and live on the dole. Future Obama people.
The Obama administration is allowing Haitians who were in the United States illegally on Jan. 12 to apply for temporary protected status. The status will allow Haitians to stay for 18 months and work while earthquake recovery continues on their home island. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas says applications can be filed as soon as official notice is published in the Federal Register, probably Thursday.
This is WRONG!!
This is BS. Force them to say in their country and give them the ability to establish a viable government and country.
The agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is expecting about 100,000 to 200,000 applications.
“We are drawing on expertise from the past” to be ready for the onslaught, said Mayorkas, who also cautioned applicants to be wary of people who may try to scam those looking for help filling out applications.
The U.S. has granted temporary protected status to about 350,000 people from a handful of Central American and African countries.
Guess who will be paying for them to live here for the rest of their lives and generations to come!
I thought if you had ever traveled to Haiti, you couldn’t be a bone marrow donor... guess this goes along with the destroy America first regime.
Good idea, let’s just bring the problem closer.
But at least they’ll vote liberal Democrat just in time for 2010. :)
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Hussein is presently sending Jorge Bush and Juan McVain to arrange a natural disaster in Mexico for him.
Don’t keep them here; they’re needed back in Haiti. Pay them to go home and be part of the rebuilding.
And the children they bear in the US while here during the 18 months won’t need temporary protected status...the children will be US citizens. Ain’t that just lovely...WTF
There’s a big difference between Haiti and Mexico. Mexico has resources and is huge. If a hurricane hits Mexico, people can just move to a location that wasn’t affected by the hurricane. A hurricane in Haiti covers the entire island. If the crops are destroyed in one place, they’ve probably been destroyed everywhere else on the island as well. This is temporary, so I’m ok with it, but only because it’s Haiti. It’s not like Obama is going to track down and send these people back to Haiti if they don’t register. If it was anywhere else, I’d be totally against this. But because it’s Haiti, I’m ok with it.
Kiss Florida in 2012 goodbye. It will be won by Obama. Florida the key swing state. Obama is going to do this with every third world that has a thunder storm. A lot of bleeding hearts at FR are all for it.
Peggy Joseph Haitian-American 2008 at Obama rally.
“Obama is going to pay my mortgage and put gas in my car”
They will never leave. Obama will eventually want your 401 K or IRA to pay for them. He is already talking about it. And when he carries FL in 2012 thanks to the Haitians - he will be President for life or his last 4 years will destroy this country. I am amazed at some people on FR.
They will never leave. Obama will eventually want your 401 K or IRA to pay for them. He is already talking about it. And when he carries FL in 2012 thanks to the Haitians - he will be President for life or his last 4 years will destroy this country. I am amazed at some people on FR.
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