Posted on 01/16/2010 6:06:14 AM PST by Brilliant
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano extended temporary amnesty to Haitians who were illegally inside the U.S. before Tuesday's earthquake, but warned that the Coast Guard would turn back any new refugees fleeing the devastation...
If refugees take to the sea--the normal reaction to turmoil throughout Haiti's recent history--officials in the U.S. and other countries will have to grapple with how to deal with a new wave of immigrants, most of whom will arrive without visas.
Ms. Napolitano warned that no new arrivals would get amnesty and the U.S. Coast Guard and other authorities would move quickly to stop new migrants. "People should not leave Haiti with the false belief that they will be entitled to TPS in the United States," she said...
TPS has been offered to victims of natural disasters before... But until Friday, TPS had never been granted to Haitian refugees, despite calls for relief following hurricanes and civil strife, mainly because successive White House administrations have feared it would trigger a stampede of refugees seeking haven in the U.S.
Ms. Napolitano estimated there are 100,000-200,000 Haitians in the U.S. who could benefit from Friday's TPS declaration, which allows illegal immigrants who were in the country before Tuesday to stay and work for 18 months...
"The statute was written to deal with exactly this type of a situation," Ms. Napolitano said of the law extending temporary amnesty. "It's an act of compassion among other things..."
Ms. Napolitano said the decision was made in consultation with the White House and the State Department.
Following the earthquake, Democrats and Republicans from Florida's congressional delegation had joined immigration activists calling for the White House to grant TPS.
"It's a good day!" said Cheryl Little, executive director of Miami-based Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, a Haitian activist group, after Ms. Napolitano's announcement...
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I would go to Little Haiti in Miami and gather all of the entrepreneurs who have successfully built businesses there and other professional Haitians, and send them a simple message.
“You have earned much here, now it is time to give back and help rebuild your country. Nobody else is going to do it for you.”
There is no such thing as a temporary amnesty. No one ever gets booted out once they get this temporary protected status to live here. Then they start having children and anchor babies
I've seen this scam repeated over and over again with Guatemalans Hondurans and people from all over the Caribbean
No one ever goes home! Get it? Don't be naive!
Sounds like you want to welcome the entire island
Why limit it to one island? Most of the World lives in poverty. Lets bring them all in. And then, when my country is gone, and my children/grandchildren are disenfranchised...I’m sure they’ll do better here than they did where they came from. Because ones success is all about geography.
Every few years Bangladesh has a cyclone that kills tens of millions
Why don't we bring it half of Bangladesh next time?
By pure chance Haiti is 500 miles from Florida but now everyone will act as though they are part of America
Sure it sucks there.....always has But there are even worse parts of the world
I guess my bleeding heart is hemorrhaging, eh?
Have you seen the human misery that has befallen these poor souls? YES I would want them all to come here... at least all the widows and orphans.
While the misery in Darfur is a half a globe away and there isn't much we can do about it, the misery in Haiti is right on our doorstep. If the estimates of the death and destruction is as bad as some have said, this is the worst disaster in the history of this hemisphere.
If your heart is not bleeding now, then you don't have a heart.
You live in a sovereign nation with defensible borders named “The United States of America”. Haiti or no Haiti that’s the deal. I am not a citizen of the world but I am a citizen of America and only America
Help the Haitians all ya want where they live with a few billion in food and aid but I don’t believe in bringing in millions to America. You may hallucinate otherwise. You may try your “compassion bully” act on me too. Adios
BTW: Don't ever fall for the classic Dominican line that Doms are "not black like those Haitians." Most Dominicans look no different from black Americans, but are still more brown than Haitians (other than the mulatto elite).
Alot of them actually end up in Queens (or the UK), but those are the ones who can afford the expensive plane ticket to JFK or Heathrow.
Yes, Dominicans and Haitians are almost equally black, although it seems to me that there is a somewhat larger number of average folk in the DR who are light-skinned (in Haiti, only the upper class seems to be light skinned).
I know that Haitian infiltration into DR has always been a problem. And it’s true that Dominicans definitely do not like Haitians!
I agree completely.
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