Senate Democrats to Trump administration: Let Haitians stay

[SecularMotion]

Source: Miami Herald

Sixteen U.S. Senate Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Minority Leader Charles Schumer of New York, are urging the Trump administration not to return tens of thousands of Haitians to Haiti as the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is recommending.

James McCament, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is calling for Temporary Protected Status, the immigration relief that has allowed 58,000 Haitians to live and work freely in the United States without fear of deportation, to be terminated as early as January.

McCament made the recommendation to U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary John Kelly in an April 10 memo obtained by the Miami Herald. He argues that “conditions in Haiti no longer support its designation” for temporary protection/. He said the benefit, which expires July 22 for Haitians, should be extended for six months and then terminated.

The senators, including Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, are calling on Kelly and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to extend the benefit beyond McCament’s recommendation.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article147119424.html

[Grins]

1. Just change the language in the bill....

...to include Cubans (Castro is dead and we have an embassy there) and THAT will end this in a hurry-up.

[Sunlei]

2. They can't because any Cubans who 'touched USA land' were by law always allowed to stay. AND

fights from Mexico/Canada-Cuba were always allowed by those two countries so Cubans could fly to mexico or Canada and cross border. touch USA land and stay.

Now within the past two months, the law has just changed and Cubans can no longer use 'wetfoot-dryfoot' to live in America.