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By Anthony Man and Mike Clary May 22, 2017 A humanitarian program that has allowed Haitians to legally live and work in the U.S. after a series of calamities befell their country was extended Monday until January — a move that fell far short of the hopes of Haitian-American community leaders and a range of Florida elected officials. “It’s bad news. We are …
By Jacqueline Charles May 19, 2017 [email protected] Starting in February, Haitians began showing up at the low-cost health center run by Borinquen Medical Centers of Miami-Dade worrying about what they’ll do if the federal government ends the program that protects them from deportation. Anxious and scared, they’re searching for answers if the Trump administration decides they must return to Haiti, …
By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press May 9, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as it decides whether to allow them to continue participating in a humanitarian program that has shielded tens of thousands from deportation since a devastating earthquake. The inquiries into any criminal histories of Haitian immigrants were …
Cheryl Little, Executive Director, Americans for Immigrant Justice April 26, 2017 Today the world lost one of its best. Jonathan Demme was a brilliant filmmaker, true humanitarian, extraordinary human being, and our very own angel. I first met Jonathan almost three decades ago and was immediately struck by his boundless energy and passion on behalf of our country’s most vulnerable …
By Jacqueline Charles, April 21, 2017 [email protected] The Trump administration is recommending sending tens of thousands of Haitians back to their homeland because it believes conditions have significantly improved in the disaster-prone, poverty-stricken nation. But the move comes as more than 40,000 Haitians continue to call makeshift shelters and tents homes — seven years after Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake …
Cheryl Little, Executive Director, Americans for Immigrant Justice APR 03, 2017 In recent weeks it has become increasingly clear that President Trump is delivering on his promise to create a massive “deportation force” and crack down on those seeking refuge in our country. The extent to which his directives undermine basic Constitutional principles is shocking and leaves no doubt that …
BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO MAR 28, 2017 [email protected] They’re so scared, these refuge-seekers in President Donald Trump’s America, that their immigration attorney will not even identify the country from which they fled rampant violence. But it was one of Central America’s violent northern triangle countries, meaning Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador. “They were running for their lives,” Abel S. Delgado tells me. “This family …
BY ALFONSO CHARDY MARCH 25, 2017 [email protected] A movement is taking shape to create a sort of “public defender’s office” to represent hundreds of thousands of immigrants who may wind up in deportation proceedings and cannot afford an attorney. While the effort is amorphous at this time, and largely focused on certain communities, some nationally known immigration attorneys and advocates — …
BY ALFONSO CHARDY MAR 05, 2017 [email protected] Before the sun peeked above the horizon, dozens of day laborers gathered in the parking lot of a Little Havana Home Depot one morning last week waiting to be picked up to build our homes, mow our lawns or pick the fruits and vegetables we eat. Similar scenes played out at many parking lots …
BY MICHAEL GRUNWALD FEB 28, 2017 For all the sound and fury of his first 39 days in office, President Donald Trump has not yet dismantled President Obama’s health reforms, Wall Street regulations, or climate rules. He hasn’t started overhauling America’s tax code, rehabbing America’s infrastructure, or building a border wall. But even though Trump has done less to change federal …
