Preval demande aux USA d'arreter les deportations d'haitiens

A call to halt deportations

Haiti's President René Préval asked the U.S. government to stop deporting undocumented Haitians and instead grant them temporary protected status.

Posted on Sat, Feb. 16, 2008

By JACQUELINE CHARLES

After refusing for two years to ask for a U.S. halt in deportations of undocumented Haitians, Haiti's President René Préval has asked President Bush to grant them temporary protected status.

Suite de l'article: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/421418.html

Colo

Il ne faut pas s'etonner de la demande de Rene Preval.La semaine dernière on a devoilé durant la visite de Richard Nixon en Chine pour discuter des propositions de rapprochement entre les deux pays avec Mao Tse Toung ;ce dernier avait offert à Nixon dix millions de femmes chinoises.(lol)En ecoutant la nuvelle au prime a bord je croyais a une plaisanterie ,mais le journaliste a confirmé que cette demande se trouve dans les archives nationales des Etats-Unis.

Fidel castro aussi avait demande que les Etas-Unis accordent plus de visas aux ressortissants cubains.Alors la demande de Preval au president Bush de tolerer un peu la desobeisance des lois de son pays par les haitiens rentre dans cette meme logique.(lol)Au lieu d'avoir un plan familial pour diminuer la pression de la croissance demographique sur l'economie ;ils prefèrent se debarrasser de leurs citoyens trop nombreux.Ah nos kominis; qu'ils sont perspicaces.

C'est très sérieux de la part de Préval et il mérite le support des gouvernements de la Caraibe, le Mexique et de l'Amerique centrale,à part celui de tous les Haitiens.

Cette politique de déportations est raciste et ne résout en rien les problèmes de crimes et de délinquence des Etats-Unis ou du Canada.
Les mafiosos ne sont pas renvoyés en Italie.

Son résultat le plus concret est l'augmentation de l'insécurite dans les pays mentionnés plus haut.

Lorsque les USA ou le Canada renvoient, en Haiti, un criminel qui a grandi depuis sa tendre enfance dans ces pays où ils ont appris à etre criminels.
Des gens qui n'ont aucun lien avec le pays sinon leur naissance.
Certains ne parlent meme pas le Kreyol.

Que pensez-vous qu'ils font faire en Haiti où les gens honnètes ne peuvent pas se trouver un emploi?

Qui, pensez-vous, ont introduit certains crimes, jusque là inconnus dans la société Haitienne?

Quant à la déportation des Haitiens pour entrée clandestine au Etats-Unis.
Il y a des mesures dont bénéficient les autres nations mais qui excluent les Haitiens; encore sur des bases suspectes.

Le traitement réservé au clandestin haitien est bien différent de celui réservé au Cubain, à l'Europeen, au Chinois ou au ressortissant anglais.

Les mesures d'exceptions pour la sécurite de la vie, les catastrophes naturels etc... ne sont pas appliquées à Haiti alors qu'elles le sont pour le Salvador ou la Colombie.

Krome est réservé pour les Haitiens.

Sasaye,

La demande de Préval ne vise pas les criminels mais plutot les clandestins, d'après l'article:

"After refusing for two years to ask for a U.S. halt in deportations of undocumented Haitians, Haiti's President René Préval has asked President Bush to grant them temporary protected status."

Colo,

Vous avez raison. Mais j'ai sauté sur le sujet des criminels parceque c'est une injustice pour notre pays qui nous coute très cher en insécurite et instabilité.
Je pense que Préval aurait du soulever cette question avec les Americains, aussi.

Le "temporary protected status" est dejà en vigueur pour d'autres nationalités, pourquoi pas les Haitiens?

A prayerful request for U.S. to help Haiti


Posted on Sat, Mar. 01, 2008



By JOHN CLEMENT FAVALORA


Below are excerpts from a letter by The Most Reverend John Clement Favalora, Archbishop of Miami, to President Bush.

I write to offer my strong, considered and prayerful support of Haitian President René Préval's recent request for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian immigrants in the United States.
As the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, plagued by political instability, violence and environmental crises, Haiti is simply unable to handle the return of its nationals at this time, making Haitian nationals currently in the United States eligible for TPS under the Immigration and Nationality Act. As such, granting TPS for Haitians is not only the morally right course of action, but also sanctioned by law.

Tragic events

Daily, in the pews of our churches, behind the desks of our schools, inside the waiting rooms of our various ministries, I hear the tearful laments of our Haitian brothers and sisters who watch painfully, often tearfully, as their beloved homeland sinks deeper into a humanitarian crisis. I note with sadness the following tragic events, which prompted President Préval's request:

• In October 2007, Tropical Storm Noel's torrential rains caused floods and landslides damaging or destroying nearly 20,000 houses and killing 66 people;

• The storm hit as Haiti remains prone from the destruction of Tropical Storm Jeanne in 2004 that caused more than 2,500 deaths, countless injuries, and the complete destruction of 4,000 homes and left 250,000 homeless -- a tragedy on the scale as one that prompted you to designate TPS for Salvadorans in 2001;

• To improve security in Haiti, President Préval requested the 8,000 U.N. peacekeeping troops to confront criminal gangs that kidnap, harass and terrorize Port-au-Prince residents, a testament to the continuing political violence;

• The U.S. government warns U.S. citizens of the risk of travel to Haiti, stating that ''chronic danger of violent crime, especially kidnappings. Most kidnappings are criminal in nature, and the kidnappers make no distinctions of nationality, race, gender or age; all are vulnerable. . . .'' In fact, embassy personnel live under a curfew due to this violence. Yet many Haitians face the horrific choice of abandoning their U.S. citizen children in the United States, if deported to Haiti, or keeping the family unit intact by exposing their children to these risks.
If the people of Haiti have any chance to extricate themselves from this humanitarian crisis, TPS will serve as an essential element in their success.
With its destitute economy and political instability, the money sent to Haiti from Haitians in the United States represents a critical source of economic aid to the island nation. Haitians in the U.S. annually remit approximately $1 billion to Haiti, 30 percent of its gross domestic product.
Ongoing deportations not only staunch the flow of this significant economic assistance, but also exacerbate the humanitarian crisis by increasing joblessness, homelessness and family separation.

Reprieve for a beleaguered Haiti


March 16, 2008

LAST MONTH, Haiti's president, René Préval, wrote to President Bush asking for a favor: For the time being, please stop deporting Haitians who are in the United States without legal status. It's a controversial request - one that would affect perhaps 20,000 people who entered this country illegally, are seeking asylum, or are appealing immigration decisions. The proposal is a tough sell politically, but it makes global sense.

Préval wants Bush to grant Haitian immigrants "temporary protected status." It's a legal time-out for immigrants who come from countries facing crises such as armed conflicts and natural disasters. The status already applies to certain Nicaraguan immigrants, who are covered because of devastation caused in 1998 by Hurricane Mitch. Immigrants from El Salvador are covered because of earthquakes there in 2001.

To make his own case, Préval points to devastating storms that struck Haiti in 2004, causing thousands of deaths, widespread homelessness, and the destruction of fertile land. Préval does not say so in his letter, but as Bush knows, Haiti is also chronically racked by poverty, AIDS, violence, and illiteracy.

Haitian workers in the United States play a key role in combating those problems. Préval points to how much his country relies on money that Haitians earn in the United States and send to relatives at home.

In 2007, remittances to Haiti from the United States totaled an estimated $1.26 billion - about 24 percent of Haiti's gross domestic product, according to the Inter-American Development Bank, which finances development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. It dwarfs the $129 million in foreign aid that Haiti got in 2007 from the US Agency for International Development.

Remittances act as an unofficial antipoverty program. Haitians use the money for food, clothes, medicine, educational costs, as well as opening bank accounts, building homes, and launching small businesses.

Given this economic benefit, granting temporary protected status for Haitians is a simple way to help their native country build a better future. Temporary status would only apply to Haitians who could prove they were in the United States before a set cutoff date. New immigrants would not be covered.

The plight of Haitians at risk of deportation only underscores the inadequacy of US immigration policy. Haiti now depends upon workers who have found a place in the US economy despite their lack of legal status. These Haitian immigrants probably would have gotten some protection last year. But immigration reform efforts in Congress failed.

Now, Bush should direct the Department of Homeland Security to grant temporary protected status, to help preserve the remittances that finance Haiti's fragile quest for progress.

© Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company.

Attendons encore, un peu. Pozé, pozé.

Les Ayisyens qui s'exposent aux intempéries et aux requins pour rejoindre une rive plus propice à leurs besoins primordiaux, sont des gens désespérés qui fuient le plus souvent la campagne qui se désertifie et ne peut plus les nourrir.

Le premier objectif de ces malheureux est la survie pour eux et leurs proches.

Bien que l'éducation soit la clef du succès, ce n'est pas ce qu'ils recherchent en premier lieu.

Donnez-leur la chance de respirer, de manger, de s'habiller et de se loger.
C'est leur but le plus pressant.

Ce que Préval demande, c'est de ne pas refouler ces gens dans leur pays, où leur situation deviendra encore plus pénible, parceque nombre de ces malheureux ont hypothéqué tout ce qu'ils possédaient pour payer le raquetteurs du kanter.

Parceque le "temporary protected status" est octroyé aux ressortissants des pays qui ont été frappés par un désastre naturel, écologique, etc..

Notre pays est frappé par tous les désastres, meme ceux qui sont encore indescriptibles.

Preval a raison. Vous etes trop exigeant.