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TPS for Haitians - Did the Trump govt lie about the situation in Haiti to send TPS holders back?

April 19, 2018 10:05 AM

Father Gerard Jean-Juste - TPS For Haitians

According to the US Department of Homeland Security, all is well in Haiti now and Haitians with TPS can go home; however, a TPS report says otherwise...

Read this from the Miami Herald...

Three weeks before the Trump administration announced that it will end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians because the country no longer met the requirements for the temporary relief, documents released by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of a lawsuit indicate Haiti remains vulnerable with continuing housing and food shortages.

"Many of the conditions prompting the original January 2010 TPS designation persist," an 18-page October 2017 memo from USCIS said.

That view differs from the one expressed by USCIS Director Francis Cissna in a Nov. 3 memo for Department of Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Cissna mentions the report but concludes that "Haiti has made significant progress in recovering from the 2010 earthquake, and no longer continues to meet the conditions for designation."

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