U.S.: 200,000 undocumented Haitians to seek legal status

[babylonsister]

U.S.: 200,000 undocumented Haitians to seek legal status

By Alfonso Chardy | Miami Herald


Federal immigration officials are expecting up to 200,000 undocumented Haitian immigrants, including nearly 68,000 in South Florida, to apply for a new federal immigration program that would allow the migrants to legally remain and work in the United States for 18 months.

The estimated number of potential applicants for Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, is far larger than earlier predictions of about 30,000 Haitians nationwide, according to local immigrant organizations and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.

The higher figures emerged Wednesday during a briefing with reporters by USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas. He was in Miami to meet with several South Florida immigrant aid organizations involved in assisting undocumented Haitian immigrants applying for TPS.

His visit comes on the heels of the Obama administration's announcement last week to grant TPS to undocumented Haitian immigrants who were in the United States on or before Jan. 12 -- the day the earthquake struck Haiti. Those who arrive after the Jan. 12 deadline will be repatriated to Haiti.

TPS is an immigration benefit reserved for selected undocumented migrants from countries disrupted by natural disasters, armed conflicts or other emergencies.

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[EFerrari]

1. Too bad they can't be admitted for unnatural disasters like

disaster capitalism.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Indeed

:)

[dkf]

3. Haiti has problems because of capitalism?

I thought it was more the after effects of a dictatorship no?

[EFerrari]

4. The reason Haiti had a dictatorship and now a puppet

is because (mainly but not exclusively) the US and France only allow governments to exist there that will play ball -- i.e., privatize whatever is deemed desirable. The dictatorship, the puppets are nice and corrupt, too. So I'm sure that they get a hefty cut of whatever the capitalists don't want.