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Florida state Rep. Dotie Joseph said given the dire situation in Haiti the administration, the U.S. should adhere to refugee protocols to afford Haitians the same protections as other refugees.
When Haiti’s slow-motion crisis unfurled last week as gangs united to attack the country’s core institutions, White House officials turned to national security and intelligence agencies to ...
The Haitian refugee crisis, which began in 1991, saw the US Coast Guard collect Haitian refugees and take them to a refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay. [1] They were fleeing by boat after Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected president of Haiti, was overthrown and the military government was persecuting his followers. [2]
More than 578,000 people have been displaced across Haiti, forced to abandon their homes and neighborhoods since gangs escalated their attacks after the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
25 June – Kenyan police units arrive in Haiti for a United Nations-backed security mission to restore order. [21]29 June – The Biden administration expands its Temporary Protected Status program to 309,000 Haitian refugees in the United States until February 2026, offering the refugees deportation relief and work permits.
The response of other Caribbean states to the crisis varied, but was generally anti-refugee. The Dominican Republic, which supported the Haitian military regime, sought to stem the flow of over 30,000 refugees with an increased police and army presence on the border. [22] The Bahamas had a similar response to refugees
TheGrio asked National Security Council spokesperson, John Kirby, about U.S. involvement in the Caribbean nation. Planes carrying more United States […] The post Watch: White House briefs on US ...
The program allows a combined total of 30,000 people per month from the four countries to enter the US. The program was implemented in 2022 to 2023 (Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua [1]) in response to high numbers of migrants and asylum seekers from these countries crossing into the US at the southwest border with Mexico. [2]