TPS

Over 766 Haitians who had been living in the United States with Temporary Protected Status have been deported to Cap Haitien.  They were working, educating their children, going to church and contributing to American communities before being sent back to a country that is even more insecure than when they left.  Cap Haitien is saturated with deportees - many do not want to stay but they remain as the routes to and beyond Port-au-Prince are unsafe, especially for women and girls.  Some of them will be hurt, even killed trying to reconnect with friends and family members who may be able to host them.  This is a cruel policy even for this Administration.  Please talk to your elected officials about ending the deportation of Haitians as soon as possible.  

When the United States deports Haitians, they are sent to Cap Haitien in the north.  Women and children are afraid to take the road to Port-au-Prince where they may be raped by bandits.  Port-au-Prince remains extremely dangerous to transit though given that the vast majority of the city, despite the presence of a multi-national security force, is controlled by gangs.   Many deportees sleep rough in Cap Haitien knowing that their lives are at at risk if they leave.  The Cap Haitien municipality  does not have the resources to support them.  Faith based groups, a labor union, and several Haitians are sueing the United States over these deportations which were a  human rights violation under the Biden Administration just as it is under the Trump Administration now.  View the full article linked and below for more information. 

Trenton Daniel of the Miami Herald describes below the speech given by Bill Clinton at the second annual Haiti Diaspora Unity Congress. During the speech, he encouraged the Diaspora to stay engaged and announced a number of new initiatives.  For example, he noted that the Soros Economic Development Fund has created a Haiti Invest project, through which an initial 25 million dollars will be spent on  promoting investment in agricuture, energy, housing, and tourism.  Clinton is an asset to Haiti, but as one participant emphasized, the Haitian Diaspora must now step up.