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Page Two - Grant TPS

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U.S. Rep. Alcee L. Hastings Leads Congressional Black Caucus in Urging President to Take Decisive Action on Haiti
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Congressional Black Caucus Letter Urging President to Grant TPS
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HLLN Urgent Action Appeal: Urge President Obama and the Obama Team to grant TPS to Haitians nationals
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HLLN SAMPLE LETTER Asking President Obama to Assist Haiti's Recovery Efforts by Granting Haitian Nationals TPS

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Haitian family recalls `darkest night'
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Hurricane Ike kills dozens in Haiti
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Editorials urging the President to Grant TPS to Haitians
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See our List of Requested Items for the Storm Victims

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Deportations to storm-crippled Haiti resume, Dec. 9, 2008, Associated Press

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U.S. Resumes Deportation flights to Haiti, Dec. 9, 2008, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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- Miami Herald Audio Slideshow - Haiti's human wreckage , Sept. 8, 2008

- Photos - PATRICK FARRELL / MIAMI HERALD:
Cabaret, Haiti - A woman weeps as the lifeless bodies of twelve children that died in flooding caused by Hurricane Ike are loaded onto a truck and carried away to the morgue.

- Photo Gallery | Hurricane Ike strikes Cabaret, Haiti

- Photo- Frantz Samedi had searched for his 5-year-old for two hours, trudging through heaps of storm debris and muddy water, calling her name, ``Tamasha, Tamasha!''

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Hanna Leaves At Least 61 Dead In Haiti
Storm Prompts Hurricane Watch In Carolinas
UPDATED: 1:04 pm EDT September 4, 2008

At least 61 people have died in floods across Haiti caused by Tropical Storm Hanna, officials said Thursday.


Hanna battered Haiti, forcing thousands to flee to shelters as floodwaters poured through the small country. Families scrambled onto rooftops to stay above floodwaters triggered by torrents of rain. U.N. soldiers are still unable to reach one badly flooded city.

The storm is nearing hurricane strength again, with its winds now up to 70 mph. Hurricane Ike and Tropical Storm Josephine are also gaining strength.

A hurricane watch was posted Thursday along much of the Carolinas as Tropical Storm Hanna gains strength through the Bahamas.

At 8 a.m. EDT, Hanna was moving north at 12 mph, with maximum sustained winds near 70 mph. The center of the storm was located about 280 miles east-southeast of Nassau and about 760 miles south-southeast of Wilmington, N.C.
Some residents along the south Atlantic coast have started moving boats and booking rooms at inland hotels as they get ready for the arrival of what could be Hurricane Hanna.

Forecasters said Hanna, currently a tropical storm, could make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane somewhere along the Carolinas on Saturday, though that's still tentative. Wherever it hits could get as much as 10 inches of rain.

Officials as far north as the Washington, D.C., area are warning residents to get ready for heavy winds and rain.

Authorities in South Carolina said they may start issuing voluntary evacuation orders around noon. National Guardsmen in both Carolinas are on alert.

Hurricane Ike 'Extremely Dangerous'
Hurricane Ike continues to grow after it strengthened to what forecasters called an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm.

On Wednesday evening, Ike became a Category 3 storm and the third major hurricane of the Atlantic season. Ike then intensified to a Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds. Hours later, Ike's winds were blowing at 145 mph.

At 5 a.m. EDT, Ike's center was located about 550 miles northwest of the Leeward Islands and was moving west-northwest at about 17 mph.

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm is expected to continue on its current track over open waters for a couple days before turning more to the west. It's too soon to tell which land areas could be threatened.

Behind Hanna, Ike Comes Josephine

Forecasters said Josephine, the tropical storm behind Ike, is fluctuating in strength. Maximum sustained winds have hovered around 60 mph. Forecasters said continued changes in intensity are expected in the coming days.ntinued changes in intensity are expected in the coming days.

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Hanna slams Haiti, aims for Bahamas

By JACQUELINE CHARLES AND EVAN S. BENN
ebenn@MiamiHerald.com, Miami Herald, Sept. 3, 2008

Haitians wade through flooded streets after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area of Gonaives on Wednesday. Storms have killed at least 126 people in Haiti in less than three weeks.
ARIANA CUBILLOS/AP PHOTO

Haitians wade through flooded streets after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area of Gonaives on Wednesday. Storms have killed at least 126 people in Haiti in less than three weeks.

» More ARIANA CUBILLOS / AP Photos
* Gallery | Hanna hits Caribbean
* Gallery | Hurricane Gustav kills in Haiti

Families screamed for help from rooftops in parts of Haiti, where floods and mudslides from Tropical Storm Hanna has led to 26 deaths and deepened the country's desperate food shortage.

The storm is expected to begin rolling toward the Bahamas on Wednesday.

At 11 a.m. Wednesday, Hanna's maximum sustained winds were near 60 mph, but forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in West Miami-Dade County said it could regain hurricane strength and turn toward the east coast of Florida, Georgia or South Carolina in the next few days. The storm was getting larger but not stronger.

The storm was drifting toward the north near 2 mph, with forecasters expecting Hanna to move across the southeastern Bahamas later in the day.
Hanna, a stalling, crawling system will likely bring lousy weather to South Florida on Thursday and Friday as it skirts along the coast toward a possible landfall in South Carolina.

After Hanna lurks Tropical Storm Ike.

Midway between Florida and Africa, Ike gained some strength and looked well organized late Tuesday. Forecasters say it will likely become a hurricane Wednesday and a Category 2 storm by week's end. Its projected path would keep it south of Florida, with a possible landfall on the north coast of Cuba on Sunday.

But it is too early to determine what land areas might be affected by Ike.

And after Ike is Tropical Storm Josephine.

It also showed signs of development and was expected to reach hurricane strength Wednesday as it tracks over warm, open water past the Cape Verde Islands. It's far too early to say where Ike will go, but if it continues on its northwest path, it shouldn't affect South Florida, but that could change.

This year's hurricane season is just past its halfway point, but it seems far from over.

In Haiti, where Hurricane Gustav killed 79 people and destroyed at least 10,000 homes last week, Hanna has flooded many low-lying northern areas and reportedly caused 10 unconfirmed deaths.

''Gonaives practically doesn't exist,'' Eberle Nicolas, a Haitian agronomist, said Tuesday from the flooded town about 75 miles north of Port-au-Prince.

Floodwater overtopped riverbanks in Gonaives and the northern coast town of Port-de-Paix, sending people fleeing to rooftops to escape the rising water.

Prime Minister Michéle Pierre-Louis tried to tour Gonaives but was turned away by the high water, and the storm prevented rescue helicopters from searching for victims.

''The situation is grave,'' Port-de-Paix Mayor Salvador Guillet told The Miami Herald. ``This is perhaps the most difficult moment we've experienced in our history.''

What's worse: Ike could sink Haiti's flood-prone towns if it moves -- as forecasters expect it to do -- over Hispaniola on Saturday as a Category 2 hurricane.

''It would not be good for us,'' Guillet said.

Competing wind shear and interaction with land knocked down Hanna from a hurricane to a tropical storm with 65 mph winds, but forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said Hanna could regain hurricane strength Wednesday as it moves northwest through the Bahamas and close to Florida's coast.

Hanna could make landfall by late Friday in South Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane, but a slight deviation in its track could send it plowing into Florida.
''It is too early to tell,'' said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for the hurricane center.

And as Hanna, Ike and Josephine began to take shape, Gustav disintegrated into a bunch of slow-moving rainstorms on Tuesday over Texas. Coastal Louisiana and Mississippi residents began to return to their homes.

Sergio Morales, 22, a senior at the University of New Orleans, fled the city on Saturday and wound up at a Red Cross shelter in Sweetwater. He didn't know how soon he and his friends would be able to return.

Gustav made landfall as a Category 2 storm, but officials were afraid it could have been much stronger, so they decided to evacuate the Gulf Coast on Sunday. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the ordering of evacuations was the right call.

'I got questions asking, `Wasn't this a false alarm,' '' Chertoff said. ``Nothing could be farther from the truth.

''And the reason I mention this,'' Chertoff continued, ``is, we have another storm bearing down on the United States, which is Hanna.''

The smattering of storms comes during what is historically the peak of hurricane season, from mid-August through October.

An average hurricane season has 11 named storms, and government forecasters predicted last month this above-average season would bring 14 to 18 named storms. So far, we've already seen 10.

''We are well on our way to having an active season,'' Feltgen said. ``All the ingredients are there for the storms to surface.''

Miami Herald staff writers Erika Beras, Marc Caputo, Carolina Navarro, Jennifer Lebovich and Trenton Daniel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Hanna flooding strands hungry Haitians on rooftops
Sept. 04, 2008, By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer

Ariana Cubillos / AP Photo
A woman stands with her belongings near a mud thatch home during flooding from Tropical Storm Hanna, in L'Artibonite, northern Haiti, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. The storm has spawned flooding in Haiti that left 10 people dead in Gonaives, along Haiti's western coast, according to the country's civil protection department.

» More PhotosGONAIVES, Haiti --

Entering a flooded city on inflatable boats, U.N. peacekeepers found hundreds of hungry people stranded for two days on rooftops and upper floors Wednesday as the fetid carcasses of drowned farm animals bobbed in soupy floodwaters.

Haiti seems cursed this hurricane season, with its crops ruined and at least 126 people killed by three storms in less than three weeks. Even as Tropical Storm Hanna edged away to the north, forecasters warned that a fourth storm - Hurricane Ike - could hit the Western hemisphere's poorest country as a major storm next week.

"If we keep going like this, the whole country is going to crash," moaned Mario Marcelus, who was trying to reach his family in Gonaives but didn't dare cross the floodwaters.

Rescue convoys had been trying to drive into Gonaives, Haiti's fourth-largest city, but kept turning back because lakes formed over every road into town. On Wednesday, Associated Press journalists accompanied the first group of U.N. troops to reach the city aboard Zodiac boats.

Argentine soldiers based in Gonaives plucked residents from rooftops that were the only visible parts of their houses. In a cemetery, only the tops of tombs glimmered beneath the water. The carcasses of dead animals, including a donkey and a cow, floated amid debris as flies swarmed.

About 150 people were crowded into a church. Most retreated to a large balcony above the floodwater, where they waited in misery for the waters to recede.

"There is no food, no water, no clothes," said the 37-year-old pastor, Arnaud Dumas. "I want to know what I'm supposed to do. ... We haven't found anything to eat in two, three days. Nothing at all."

The Gonaives area, where about 110,000 people live, accounted for most of the 2,000 victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne in 2004. Some residents said the current flooding was at least as bad, and criticized the government for failing to implement safety measures in the past four years.

"This is worse than Jeanne," said Carol Jerome, who fled from Gonaive on Tuesday.

About two-thirds of Gonaives was covered in mud, although it was difficult to determine the extent of the flooding from the air, U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Matt Moorlag said after planes conducted flyovers. Severe weather prevented the planes from assessing the situation in the surrounding mountains, and there was no way to reach the area.

In the chaos, there was no way of knowing how many people might be dead in the area, or how many had been driven from their homes. People kept a wary eye on water levels, which appeared to be holding steady on Wednesday as Hanna moved farther offshore.

On the ground, men used pieces of styrofoam as kickboards to try to swim out of town. People waited for help along the shores of the newly formed lake, and Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said people stranded on rooftops were becoming increasingly desperate.

"It is a great movement of panic in the city," Bien-Aime told AP as Brazilian soldiers assigned to the 9,000-member U.N. force carried him onto an idling speedboat.

Businesses were closed - both because of flooding and for fear of looting - and supplies were running short. People in water up to their knees called to Argentine peacekeepers in Spanish, shouting "Give me water!" Women on balconies held up empty pots and waved spoons, signaling their hunger.

About 1,500 people huddled in a shelter they nicknamed the "Haiti Hilton." Director Jean-Noel Preval said there was no food and the shelter was running out of drinking water.

His cousin Jezula Preval gave birth at the shelter to a healthy boy on Tuesday night. Jezula Preval, 23, said she tried to hold out at home, but the rain drove her out and floodwaters eventually swallowed her house.

"I lost everything, even the baby's clothes," she said.

The situation was dire elsewhere in Haiti as well. Floodwaters swamped a hospital near southwestern Les Cayes, and nurses moved patients to higher floors. At least 5,000 people in Les Cayes were in shelters, said Jean-Renand Valiere, a coordinator for the civil protection department.

The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince declared a disaster situation, freeing US$100,000 in emergency aid, spokeswoman Mari Tolliver said. She said hygiene kits, plastic sheeting and water jugs for up to 5,000 families are expected to arrive from Miami on Thursday.

"The biggest problem right now is just getting access to affected areas," she said.

Even as Hanna moved offshore, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Hurricane Ike in the central North Atlantic would gain strength as it approached the Caribbean and "could reach major hurricane status" within five days.
Its course remained uncertain, but the most likely track passed just north of the Haitian coastline.
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AP writer Danica Coto contributed to this report from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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An HLLN Urgent Action Appeal:
Urge the Obama Team to grant TPS to Haitians nationals

Folks, we need you to restart sending letters out to Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama urging that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) be granted to Haiti.

The inauguration is over and matters have not changed at all for Haitians.
Below we post three recent articles urging that TPS be granted to Haiti. As one article states "Barack Obama becomes president, and Haitians with deportation orders are put on notice: You're outa here!" This cannot remain unchallenged and there is no Network out here more concerned about fair treatment to Haitians than this Ezili's HLLNetwork.

So please, take a moment, one and all, to send a letter to the Obama Team. HLLN is in Washington pushing for this, but we need your help to elevate, to a higher profile, this most critical issue. Use our policy statement section where HLLN ask for TPS or the sample TPS letter. Whatever you do, please take action today.

Recently, on television we learned of a desperate and despondent California man, who committed suicide after shooting his entire family because both he and his wife had lost their jobs and did not know how to feed their five children. When I saw this shocking, incomprehensible report on TV, I thought where was the Church, the community, the extended family, the humanitarian support system in the US? I wish someone had helped this family. This happened in the richest land on earth. Imagine now, the poor Haitian, without a criminal record, with no family left in Haiti, with a US-wife and US-born children and a job, who is supporting both his/her family in the US and his/her entire extended family in Haiti, imagine being unceremoniously ripped from your wife/husband and children and sent back to a place polluted by flood waters, mudslides and abusive UN soldiers, where thousands upon thousands are dying of post-storm diseases like malaria, hepatitis and cholera, not to mention Clorox hunger/famine and malnutrition; a place where there are no jobs to give one dignity and self-respect, no health safety, little safe housing, no hope of making an income to take care of anyone? (See, Deportations slide under Obama's radar BY MYRIAM MARQUEZ, Miami Herald, Jan. 27, 2009).

In resuming deportations to Haiti, the callous Bush administration, with what can only be explained as “malevolent or racist aforethought,” ignored Haitian suffering. Obama must not.

At this point, Haiti is in much worse shape than Central Americans were at the time the Nicaraguans, Salvadorans and Hondurans were granted TPS. The damage in Haiti is worst than three times the damage left after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In Haiti, mudslides still cover entire towns. Houses are flooded. Schools have collapsed on children and people are starving. It's inhumane to deport Haitian back to Haiti under these devastating conditions, where they will find no home, no employment, no food, no personal safety and security.

Folks, is it too much to ask that you write a letter that will, for each Haitian not deported, save up to 30 lives, and in the aggregate, thousands upon thousand of lives in Haiti? When the US deports an income earner to storm-ravaged and famine Haiti, this decreases remittances to Haiti and further impoverishes family members who depended on the remittances from family members abroad. Diaspora remittances from the US are the most effective and direct aid to the Haitian poor in Haiti.

Please write the Obama team. Ask them to do the right thing, stop treating Haitians as if they are not human beings like all of us. TPS has been granted in the past to nationals of Sudan , Liberia , Guinea-Bissau , Somalia , Burundi , Bosnia-Herzegovina , El Salvador and Guatemala due to political unrest in those countries. And, if Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Salvadorans get TPS and before the law authorizing TPS, the U.S. used extended voluntary departure (EVD), which had the same effect as TPS and this was afforded to people from China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Cambodia, Lebanon, Romania, Hungary. Why are Haitians so disparagingly treated? Haitians have never been granted TPS. Why not? The four September 2008 hurricanes are the worst in remembered history. Why are Haitians so undeserving of life?

Please send a letter and call President Obama and your local congressional representative asking that the United States permanently stop all deportations to Haiti because it is not safe and grant Haitians in the US temporary protected status. A suggested sample letter is below. (See also TPS update - No deportations to storm-crippled Haiti, for now).

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) with a specification to permanently stop all deportations to Haiti will permit Haitians presently in the United States to reside here and qualify for work authorization for 18 months. It would thus guarantee their well-being and safety until the country has recovered from the four recent storms and there is less famine and instability crisis throughout the country.

Ask that the Obama team to rectify this unequal treatment and do what the Bush Administration would not do - grant TPS to Haitians and STOP DEPORTATIONS to storm-ravaged Haiti. Please send a letter out today, with a copy to your local and national media. The info you need is at:

HLLN Urgent Action Alert - Ask President Obama to help in Haiti's Recovery efforts by granting TPS to Haitian nationals

Haiti Policy Statement for Obama the Team
http://www.margueri telaurent. com/#policy

With the press reporting a billion in damages, and 5 million out of Haiti's 8.5 million people homeless, without water, food or shelter, if there was ever a time for the federal government to grant this status it is now. These successive September, 2008 storms and hurricanes - Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike - have not only left multitudes homeless but have destroyed any hope of Haiti domestically ameliorating the massive starvation that the world became aware of with the April food riots, by utterly flooding out Haiti's food crops in the Artibonite breadbasket area of Haiti.

Deporting Haitians to Haiti under these circumstances is wrong and will further exacerbates the human tragedy which is only beginning to be measured as flood waters recede and mud damage remains. Haiti survives, not on foreign aid as commonly believed but through the $2 US billion in remittances sent from Haitians living abroad. No other national group anywhere in the world sends money home in higher proportion than Haitians living abroad. By continuing to deport Haitians at this time, the US Government cruelly and inhumanely decreases the amount of this critical and direct support to Haitians in Haiti, who would otherwise starve and die. Continued deportations also increase the stress on Haiti's already fragile economy and environmental crisis by sending thousands of people back to a hurricane-wounded land without homes, jobs and food. The US government maintains that granting TPS or to put a moratorium on all deportations to Haiti could induce mass migrations. This evidences unequal treatment of Haitians.

TPS has been granted in the past to nationals of Sudan, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Burundi, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador and Guatemala due to political unrest in those countries. TPS was granted to Hondurans and Nicaraguans after Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and to Salvadorans after an earthquake in 2001. In 1997 President Clinton granted Haitian nationals deferred enforced departure from the United States. This did not induce mass migration of Haitians to the United States. The facts do not support the US position and exhibits an arbitrary, capricious and unfair double standards with regards to the applications of the laws as regards to Haitian nationals in the US by the US government.

Marguerite Laurent, Esq.
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
January 29, 2009

Notes:
Recommended links for HLLN's Campaign Two:
Equal Treatment for Haitian refugees, stop deportations, grant TPS, justice for the ill treated Haitian asylum seekers


Contact info for Local and national media

US Media contact info
Congressional contact info

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HLLN Urgent Action Appeal - Ask President Obama to help in Haiti's Recovery efforts by granting TPS to Haitian nationals

CALL , WRITE and/or FAX PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON AND HOMELAND SECURITY CHIEF, JANET NAPOLITANO IMMEDIATELY (A sample letter follows). Send a copy of your letter to your local congressional representative also asking they write to President OBAMA asking for TPS and a halt to all deportations to Haiti, with a copy of the media. For contact info for your congressional rep and local and national media.

- Another Contact for your elected official
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

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Sample Letter

The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Phone: 202 456-1111 or 1-800-906-5989
Fax: 202-456-2461 | http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

The Honorable Janet Napolitano
Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
2001 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20528
Phone: 202-282-8000
Fax: 202-282-8401
Homeland Security Comment Line: 202 282 8495

The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Phone: 202-647-4000

DATE: ____, 2010

Dear President Barack Obama/ Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton / Secretary Janet Napolitano

Please designate the country of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months with specifications to stop all deportations to Haiti.

The 2010 earthquake and its more than 30 aftershocks caused horrific damages. The US has temporarily stopped deportations but this not enough. Haitians in the United States desperately need to work and without an official status and work permit, they remain in limbo and in constant fear. When an income earner cannot legally work, this decreases remittances and further impoverishes family members. Diaspora remittances are the most effective and direct aid to the Haitian poor in Haiti. At no time in Haiti history is help needed more than now.

In 2002 TPS was renewed for Nicaraguan and Honduran immigrants because of continuing difficulties caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. At this point, Haiti is in much worse shape than Central Americans were at the time. Haitians in the United States should receive equal treatment and protection. Haiti qualifies for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and should be granted this disaster relief.
It's inhumane to deport Haitian back to Haiti under these devastating conditions, where they will find no home, no employment, no food, no personal safety and security.

TPS was established to provide protection to people who are temporarily unable to return to their homelands. Please help the people in Haiti by permitting their friends and relatives in the United States to remain here and to continue to send support to a nation in severe crisis. Please affirm the United States tradition of caring for and protecting persons in vulnerable situations by granting TPS and/or permanently stopping all deportations through Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) or any equivalent administrative or executive ruling, with a specification to stop ALL deportations and provide work permits to Haitian nationals.

Sincerely,

Your name and contact information

_________________________________

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cc: Ezili Dantò/Marguerite Laurent
President, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN)
Phone: (203) 829-7210
P. O. Box 3573
Stamford, CT 06905
e-mail: ezilidanto@yahoo.com
www.ezilidanto.com

Background information
-Recommended links for HLLN's Campaign Two: Equal Treatment for Haitian refugees, stop deportations, grant TPS, justice for the ill treated Haitian asylum seekers

- CARIBBEAN CROSSROADS: Bushes snubbed Haitians to the end PDF Print E-mail BY MARLEINE BASTIEN, Jan. 21, 2009

- Deportations slide under Obama's radar BY MYRIAM MARQUEZ, Miami Herald, Jan. 27, 2009

- Children dying in Haiti, victims of food crisis

-HLLN on oversight needed on USAID

-Gov. Paterson apologizes for 3-month delayed relief to Haiti

-Starvation slams Haiti
Kids dying after 4 storms ravage crops, livestock

- Life gets worse for Haiti's hungry children

-U.N.: High food prices creating more hunger

- Haiti: storm victims starve, Nov. 4, 2008

- Haiti aid effort unravels by Mike Thomson, BBC News, Oct. 24, 2008

- US lawmaker calls for action against Haiti hunger , Nov. 26, 2008

- Congresswoman Waters Calls on USAID to Save the lives of Children Starving in Haiti

- What is TPS and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), US Citizenship and Immigration Services

- See, Los Angeles Times article "Ike targets Havana" reporting that according to the Haitian government, 5 million people are homeless, without food, water and shelter, 14, 000 homes destroyed and over 1,000 dead in Haiti and counting from four successive storms and hurricanes - Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike - in less than a month.

-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, by Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Feb. 15, 2008
http://www.margueri telaurent. com/pressclips/ damocles. html#TPS

- Miami Herald Audio Slideshow - Haiti's human wreckage, Sept. 8, 2008

- Photos - PATRICK FARRELL / MIAMI HERALD:
Cabaret, Haiti - A woman weeps as the lifeless bodies of twelve children that died in flooding caused by Hurricane Ike are loaded onto a truck and carried away to the morgue.

- Photo Gallery | Hurricane Ike strikes Cabaret, Haiti
- Photo- Frantz Samedi had searched for his 5-year-old for two hours, trudging through heaps of storm debris and muddy water, calling her name, ``Tamasha, Tamasha!''

- Haitian family recalls `darkest night'

- Hurricane Ike kills dozens in Haiti

- After Hurricane Ike, Haiti needs `flood of helicopters'

- In rain-soaked Haiti, no identifying the dead

-Update for September 19, 2008 when the moratorium commenced that ended with Dec. 9, announcement to resume deportations - No deportations to storm-crippled Haiti, for now.

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Update on Deportations, December 9, 2008

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- Deportations to storm-crippled Haiti resume, Dec. 9, 2008, Associated Press

- U.S. Resumes Deportation flights to Haiti, Dec. 9, 2008, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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No deportations to storm-crippled Haiti, for now
By JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press, September 19, 2008–

MIAMI (AP) — No deportations to storm-crippled Haiti are planned, federal
immigration officials said Friday, an encouraging sign to advocates who say the
Caribbean country needs more time to recover before it can deal with fresh
arrivals.

No removals from the U.S. are scheduled, and federal officials were evaluating
conditions in the country, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez. Haiti is trying to rise from the wreckage left
behind by three hurricanes and a tropical storm within a month.

"When we feel it's appropriate to resume, we'll notify members of Congress.
There are no imminent removals to Haiti," said ICE spokeswoman Barbara
Gonzalez.

Ralph Latortue, the Haitian consul general in Miami, said he stopped issuing
travel documents for detainees, but deportations had continued.
The halt, even temporary, cheered Haitian advocates.

"We're encouraged by reports that our government is reviewing the issue of
Haitian deportations and assessing conditions on the ground," said Cheryl
Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center.

Detainees' relatives told Catholic Charities Legal Services in Miami that a
group was expected to be sent back to Haiti Friday. That group didn't go, said
Randy McGrorty, chief executive officer of the agency.

"The fact that they considered doing it is chilling," McGrorty said. "The fact
that they might resume this is frightening."

The conditions in impoverished Haiti are horrendous, leaders say. At least 425
people were killed and thousands left homeless by severe flooding after the
storms.

Relief efforts have been hindered by Haiti's neglected infrastructure. Aid
agencies and diplomats say mass hunger is a risk because the storms wiped out
Haiti's crops and damaged irrigation systems and pumping stations.

Even before the storms, skyrocketing food prices sparked violent protests
across the Western Hemisphere's poorest country this spring. Haiti's chronic
political and economic instability have prompted a U.S. State Department
warning against travel to the country of 8.5 million people.

Some South Florida congressional members, who represent the largest Haitian
community in the U.S., said they were disappointed that Haitians have not been
granted temporary protected status.

The status allows immigrants from countries experiencing armed conflict or environmental disasters to stay and work in the U.S. for a limited time. It has
been granted to a handful of African and Central American countries.


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List of Urgent Items Needed by the Earthquake Victims in Haiti

Help Haiti Appeal from: Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network – Haitian-led capacity building and relief efforts

Date: Jan. 14, 2010

The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network is recommending that earthquake relief donations go to the non-profit humanitarian organization: IFCO/Haiti Relief.

The following medicines and medical supplies are urgently needed for the earthquake victims in Haiti:

MEDICAL/HEALTH SUPPLIES:

- Water Filter units - (Bio-sand)

- Water Purification tablets
(Acquatab, WaterMakertm Chlor-Floc® , waterguard, et al)

- Purification units

- Rehydration salts

- Anti-diarrhea

- Anti-decongestants

- Antipyretics (to lower fever)

- Malaria medicine

- Typhoid medicine

- Hygienic Kits


- Antibiotics

- Anti-allergy medication

- Anti-parasite medication

- Skin treatments: antibacterial & anti-fungus (Mycology) ointments, powders, lotions, creams

- Pain relievers: Tylenol, aspirin, ect

- Eye drops, saline solution

- vitamins

- Insect (Mosquito) Repellent

- Sterile and anti septic materials

- Disinfectants: alcohol, ointments, hydrogen peroxide

- Soaps, Detergents

- Chlorine bleach

- Bedding (blankets, sheets, sleeping bags, tarps, tents, plastic sheeting and cots & folding beds)

- Tarpaulin – of any size, preferably 10X10 or larger. It is used for both roofing and flooring, and


Medical clinics accessories and materials: Disposal syringes, needles,
bandages, sterile as well as regular gloves, betadine, gauze, tape, cotton balls, pads, topical wound care stuff (silvadene, bacitracin or Neosporin etc. ointments, xeroform, etc.)

-Skin-graft equipments (dermatome, blades, mesher)

-Sterilizing equipments, cauterizing equipments

-staples, staple removers, sutures (all sizes and types… Nylon (ethilon) 2-0 3-0 4-0 … Vicryl 2-0 3-0 4-0 0-vicrly… Chromic 3-0 4-0 2-0; Prolene 6-0 4-0 3-0 2-0 etc. instruments, (trays, plastic tray)

- Sterile as well as regular Gloves

- Antibiotics… cephalosporins, cillins, cleocin, etc.

- local anesthetics

- Fiberglass splint materials… casts and cast cutter tools.

- IV fluids, IV lines, tapes

- Chest tubes and drainage system (try red cross or US govt team)


FOODS DONATIONS REQUESTED: Rice, beans (dried only), cooking oil, Sugar, Corn Flour, Nutritional bars, fruit & nut bars, cereal bars. Drinking water (Cases or six- packs at least, no single bottles), Baby food, formula Milk—powdered (long-life, no cans). MRE's (Meals-Ready-To-Eat). NO CAN GOODS PLEASE.

PERSONAL HYGIENE GOODS: Toothpaste, tooth brushes, deodorant, sanitary napkins, soap, disposable diapers, new hand towels and brand new underwear - adult (small & med.) and children sizes.

OTHER ITEMS: Tea Light candles & quality batteries (AA & D). Flashlights, lanterns with batteries. NO USED CLOTHING, please.

MONEY DONATIONS:
Those who wish to make tax deductible $ donations, please send a tax-deductible donation to: IFCO/Haiti Relief at 418 West 145th Street, New York NY 10031

New York Drop Off:

EVENING DROP-OFF HOURS ARE MON. & WED. 6:30-8:30 P.M.
HAITIAN WOMEN FOR HAITIAN REFUGEES
335 Maple Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY (this is not a mailing address) (718) 735-4660 Please use rear entrance on Lincoln Road between Nostrand and New York Avenue. Enter through St. Francis Church parking lot

DAYTIME DROP-OFF HOURS ARE MON. - FRI. 11:00-4:00 P.M. @ FLANBWAYAN HAITIAN LITERACY PROJECt (718) 774-3037 208 Parkside, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11226

Thank you.

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Urgent! Crisis Help For Haiti
Appeal from: Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network - Haitian-led Haiti capacity building and relief efforts

These are desperate times in Haiti. The 2010 earthquake has left unprecented suffering.

Haiti needs your urgent help:

1. Send Money
Join the effort of The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network in supporting the efforts of the non-profit organization IFCO/Haiti Relief from New York to raise earth funds. Send money and other necessary medical donations (See our List of Requested Items).

2. Request TPS for Haitians
Send a letter or call President Obama, Secretary Napolitano of DHS, and your local congressional representative. Ask that the United States permanently stop deportations to Haiti and grant Haitians in the US temporary protected status (TPS) because Haiti meets the country conditions to given TPS. The once-in-a century earthquake, following the four back-to-back storms and hurricanes in 2008 crippled Haiti and makes it unsafe to deport Haitians to Haiti.

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will permit Haitians presently in the United States to reside here and qualify for work authorization for 18 months. It would thus guarantee their well-being and safety until the country has recovered from the earthquake.

* TPS has been granted in the past to nationals of Sudan , Liberia , Guinea-Bissau , Somalia , Burundi , Bosnia-Herzegovina , El Salvador and Guatemala due to political unrest in those countries.

* TPS was granted to Hondurans and Nicaraguans after Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and to Salvadorans after an earthquake in 2001.

* In 1997 President Clinton granted Haitian nationals deferral enforced departure from the United States .

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After Hurricane Ike, Haiti needs `flood of helicopters'
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES, TRENTON DANIEL AND EVAN S. BENN, Miami Herald, Sept. 8, 2008

With Haiti's major bridges crumbled, roadways flooded and an estimated one million people homeless, humanitarian and government groups struggled Monday to push relief supplies into the country and throughout the storm-ravaged Caribbean.

Four storms in rapid succession have demolished patches of the Caribbean from Cuba to Hispaniola to Jamaica to the Turks and Caicos Islands to the Bahamas, killing more than 350 people, sinking entire towns and hampering aid efforts.
''We need a flood of helicopters because there is a lot of food coming into Port-au-Prince and it cannot reach the provinces,'' Haitian President René Préval said in an interview with The Miami Herald.

In Haiti, rescue groups have no access to many interior villages across the southern region and to hard-hit Gonaives, north of the capital, which was cut off when a bridge collapsed. A Red Cross truck trying to reach Les Cayes on the southern coast had to turn back because of impassable roads.

''The flooding is more extensive than people realize, and it's awful how little relief has been able to get into Gonaives and other areas,'' said Dr. Arthur Fournier, a University of Miami physician who co-founded Project Medishare, a charity that transports medical aid to Haiti.

Thousands of Haitians have been living in hospitals as temporary shelters, Fournier said.

''They are going to be stuck there for a long time,'' he said. ``They don't have homes to go back to.''

Local, national and international groups worry that a secondary disaster could arise from water-borne diseases. Fournier's group is trying to send LifeStraws to Haiti -- hand-held devices that purify water. Humanitarian workers said the most crucial supplies they need is water, sanitation items and food.

The U.S. military helped deliver food and medical help Monday, and the U.S. Agency for International Development donated $10 million. Money also trickled in from around the world: The European Union gave $2.85 million for relief efforts, and the Dominican Republic -- also struck by some of this year's storms -- donated water, food and mattresses. Trinidad and Tobago sent Haiti about $1.5 million.

Two U.S. Navy MH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters flew tens of thousands of pounds of food to Jeremie, an isolated Haitian city that Hurricane Gustav pounded. And the USS Kearsarge, a Navy hospital ship equipped with four operating rooms and 53 beds, arrived in Port-au-Prince after being rerouted from a mission to Colombia.

''It gives us a purpose,'' said Sugat Patel, 34, an infectious-disease physician aboard the Kearsarge. He had five days off ahead of him until the ship was sent to Haiti. ``I believe every soldier here would rather be doing something like this. They are doing their job.''

In South Florida, meanwhile, politicians, charities and Caribbean-American coalitions called on people to send cash and supplies to the region.

''Despite our economic downturn in Florida, we must make a generous sacrifice,'' Miami Archbishop John C. Favalora said.

Favalora assured that the money would be delivered directly to churches in Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Jamaica and other affected countries.

He then waded into the contentious political debate surrounding U.S. policy toward Cuba and Haiti, calling for an immediate granting of temporary protected status for Haitians. That status would stop deportations of Haitians, which Favalora said would be unspeakably cruel given the current conditions on the island.

Favalora also said the United States should lift the embargo on Cuba for humanitarian reasons. Lifting the embargo would allow the church to more easily send ''far more donations'' to storm victims, he said.

South Florida congressional representatives also urged President Bush to halt the deportation of illegal Haitian immigrants until the island recovers from Ike's devastation. And a coalition of Cuban-American groups asked the Bush administration to temporarily lift the sanctions on family aid and remittances, as did Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

''The best thing is for people to get help from friends and family,'' said Mayra Sanchez of North Miami, whose mother and daughter live in Las Tunas, Cuba, where storms have damaged many homes. ``But Cubans can't do that because of the embargo.''

Relief is also needed in the southernmost Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos, which Ike slammed into as a mighty Category 4 hurricane that peeled off roofs and knocked down buildings.

''It looks like Beirut,'' Turks and Caicos Premier Michael Misick said at a Grand Turk airport with a collapsed hangar.

Some people cried and hugged Misick. At one home, women called out: ``No food! No food!''

On the Bahamas' Great Inagua Island, a man snacked on coconuts in the streets of Matthew Town. He said Ike had rendered him homeless but joked about the fallen trees all over the island.

''It's easy to eat coconuts,'' said Vincent Cartwright, 66, as he snacked on fruit he plucked from a downed tree.

Then, Cartwright said: ``We got it bad here -- we're all mashed up.''

The U.S. Coast Guard's Great Inagua station sustained minor damage, and crews there said they would assist with relief efforts soon.

Government workers and Red Cross volunteers flew into the island to survey damage and begin to distribute relief supplies like food, water and hygiene kits Monday afternoon.

The government's presence provoked irritation from some in Matthew Town.
''This is a total disaster,'' Leopold Mullings, 47, yelled from his bicycle toward the government entourage. ``We don't need assessments -- we need money!''

Miami Herald staff writers Oscar Corral and Casey Woods contributed to this report, which was supplemented with material from The Associated Press.


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In rain-soaked Haiti, no identifying the dead
By JONATHAN M. KATZ, AP, Sept. 9, 2008
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/677987.html

Nine people died at shelters, including two children, even as floodwaters from Hurricane Ike receded from Gonaives and a U.S. Navy hospital ship equipped with helicopters and amphibious boats arrived in the capital to deliver food and water to cities still marooned by flooding.

But with most roads across the country still impassible, Haiti - and the world - still lacked a complete picture of the destruction, and desperation was setting in among people who have spent days in the floodwaters and mud.

A Red Cross truck trying to reach Les Cayes on Haiti's southern coast had to turn back, one of many international aid efforts still struggling to leave the capital.

North of the capital, shelters across Gonaives sustained nine deaths on Monday, according to Daniel Dupiton of region's civil protection department.

It was not immediately clear what caused those deaths. Provisional shelters have been set up in schools, churches and homes on high ground, many with scant supplies or supervision.

"We cannot confirm that they died because of hunger," said Vicky Delore Ndjeuga, a U.N. spokesman for the mission in Gonaives. "We need to make an examination to make sure it was because of food."

The national death toll - which government officials said stood at 331 people in four tropical storms in less than a month - is sure to rise as more bodies surface in the mud.

Two more bodies were found Monday in coastal Cabaret, where 60 people died as mudslides and floods unleashed by a swollen river crushed homes in the middle of the night. Sixteen other people - mostly children reported missing by their parents - were being searched for in the wreckage, Cabaret civil defense director Henri Louis Praviel said.

Late on Monday, authorities confirmed 10 more deaths, five attributed to Ike and five to Tropical Storm Hanna.

There was still no word from many cities and remote areas cut off from contact.
In Gonaives, Police Commissioner Ernst Dorfeuille said his poorly equipped force - 15 officers for the city of 160,000 - has buried dozens of badly decomposed and unidentifiable corpses in graves outside the city.

"After three days, those bodies could not stay," said Dorfeuille, adding he witnessed the burial of five people.

It wasn't clear how these bodies fit with previous tallies of the dead, but Dorfeuille denied reports citing him as giving a death toll of nearly 500 in Gonaives.

On one city street, a man used a rope to drag a bloated body through the floodwaters.

Lines of storm refugees trudged down from denuded hills Monday to the wreckage of their homes and stores.

"They told me it was destroyed but I wanted to see for myself," said Evos Chayot, who slogged through water up to her thighs to find her corner shop filled with black mud and debris.

Broken pews were scattered across the mud-smeared floor of the Gonaives cathedral, where about 50 people now live in the choir balcony. They gathered around a small cooking pot, stirring some goat meat and cornmeal to share.

Meanwhile, inmates at the city's jail clamored for deliverance from the overpowering stench of filth and sewage, and supplies for jail staff and U.N. peacekeepers as well as the 224 inmates were perilously low, said Dr. Manvoor Ahmad, a Pakistani member of the U.N. mission.

All across the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, desperation was evident.
"People are starting to move back because they have nowhere to go," U.N. development official Eric Mouillefarine said Monday. "They want to protect their homes from looters."

The USS Kearsarge was arriving in Port-au-Prince Monday after it was rerouted from a humanitarian mission to Colombia. With eight helicopters and three landing ships, it can deliver cargo and equipment all over Haiti, providing much of the logistical support needed by aid groups that have not been able to get through on land.

Some of the helicopters flew ahead to find dry places large and secure enough to offload, and the amphibious boats can reach places where even helicopters can't land. The Kearsarge also has four operating rooms and 53 hospital beds, which may come in handy once the ship reaches the hard-hit cities of Saint Marc and Gonaives.

"We can deliver several thousand tons a day. It's not what we can do, it's how it can be done," said the mission's commander, Capt. Fernandez "Frank" Ponds. "We can't just land them anywhere, so we're doing assessments. We have to make sure they can land safely."

One of the helicopters delivered rice, beans and cooking oil from the World Food Program to the town of Jeremie on Haiti's southwest peninsula. A woman who cares for 110 children at the Haiti Gospel orphanage was among about 50 people asking for a share.

"My garden was destroyed," said Yvros Pierre, who had just two bags of spoiled bread mix left. "My food is finished. My boss told me to see if there were any Americans coming and ask them for help."

Aid groups are appealing for donations to sustain a lengthy response, warning of a secondary disaster caused by waterborne illnesses and other problems in the weeks ahead. Even areas not destroyed by the storms need food, and Haiti's main farming area in the Artibonite Valley was threatened again when authorities had to open an overflowing dam on Sunday.

Some Gonaives residents gave up on the city altogether, walking barefoot across mountains to reach Haiti's northern coast, which suffered less damage.
Racine Presume in Cap-Haitien said he got a desperate call from a group of a dozen relatives gave up along the way - and he was trying to find fuel for his truck to reach them.

"They are waiting for me. I said, 'Can I bring you a bed?' They said, 'Don't bring a bed because we don't have a house. Bring food, bring clothes, bring shoes, bring lots of water,'" Presume said. "They are dying of hunger."
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Associated Press Writer Alexandra Olson, with a helicopter crew from the USS Kearsarge, contributed to this report.

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Haiti faces Storm "Catastrophe" BBC News, Sept. 4, 2008


Haiti faces a "catastrophe" after being hit by a series of storms in recent weeks, President Rene Preval has said.

Three storms in less than 21 days have killed 170 people, Haitian officials say. The British Red Cross says some 250,000 people are stranded.

Tropical Storm Hanna killed 61 people and caused floods several metres deep, stranding people on rooftops.

Mr Preval warned that Hanna could prove even more deadly than Hurricane Jeanne, which killed more than 3,000 in 2004.

Hanna swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of rain, blowing down fruit trees and swamping tin-roofed houses.

Massive need

The port city of Gonaives bore the brunt of the storm, with thousands of people seeking shelter on rooftops and balconies.

(Photo - A team from the American Red Cross flew over Gonaives
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7597307.stm )

There is no food, no water, no clothes," Arnaud Dumas, a pastor at a Gonaives church, told the Associated Press.

"I want to know what I'm supposed to do. We haven't found anything to eat in two, three days. Nothing at all."

An AP reporter in the city said safe drinking water was in very short supply, and fetid carcasses of drowned farm animals were strewn in soupy floodwaters.

Help was arriving in the area, with UN troops picking people from rooftops and Spain announcing that a planeload of aid was being flown in from Panama.

But floodwaters were frustrating efforts to distribute food, the UN said.
The British Red Cross announced it was launching an appeal, saying the needs of Haiti were "massive".

US prepares for storm

Earlier, Mr Preval said he would hold emergency talks with donor countries to appeal for aid.

Gonaives was battered with winds of 100km/h (65mph), leaving people on rooftops screaming for help as floods reached depths of 2m (6.5ft).At 1500 GMT on Thursday, Hanna was about 400km (245 miles) east of Nassau and moving north-west, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

There are fears it could become a hurricane by the time it hits land along the US coast on Saturday, but the storm's uncertain path means officials are holding off ordering an evacuation.

However, some residents of North and South Carolina have already moved boats and booked inland hotel rooms.

Separately, storm Ike has strengthened rapidly into an extremely powerful Category Four hurricane in the open Atlantic, the NHC says.

However, it says it is too early to determine if Ike poses any threat to land.
Haiti was first drenched by Tropical Storm Fay, before Hurricane Gustav wreaked havoc last week, with torrential rainfall over heavily deforested and hilly terrain causing floods and mudslides.

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Gustav death toll 77 in Haiti, eight missing, Sept. 2, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) — Hurricane storm Gustav killed 77 people and left eight others missing when it barreled through Haiti last week, officials here said Monday.

Officials said another 36 people were injured by the storm, which last week struck the island of Hispaniola, shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- the hemisphere's most impoverished country -- as a Category One hurricane.

Gustav regained hurricane strength as it plowed through the Cayman Islands and Cuba, and then battered the US Gulf coast on Monday as a Category Two hurricane.

Officials here said some 15,000 Haitian families were affected by the storm, which leveled some 3,000 dwellings and damaged another 11,458.

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Recommended links for HLLN's Campaign Two: Equal Treatment for Haitian refugees, stop deportations, grant TPS, justice for the ill treated Haitian asylum seekers

Haitians deserve equal treament:

HLLN SAMPLE LETTER Asking President Obama to Assist Haiti's Recovery Efforts by Granting Haitian Nationals TPS
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Editorials urging the President to Grant TPS to Haitians
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HLLN Urgent Action Alert: Help the people of Gonaive, Haiti directly - Also, ask for TPS for Haitians nationals
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HLLN is mobilizing legislative and international support for Haitian-American foreign policy concerns

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Obama Statement on the Need for Humanitarian Assistance to Haiti Following Devastating Storms, Sept. 8, 2008

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A People in Despair: Haiti's year without mercy
Patrick Farrell documents some of Haiti's most brutal struggles, March 20, 2009
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HR- 144: Haitian Protection Act of 2009, Govtrack.us, Jan. 6, 2009
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Will Haitians Be Spared Deportation After All? CaribWorldNews, Mar. 10, 2009
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UN expert urges US not to deport thousands back to hurricane-ravaged Haiti, UN News Center, March 6, 2009

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Wyclef Speaks Up For Haitians Facing Deportation, CaribWorldNews, Mar. 2, 2009
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US Discriminatory Immigration Policies Toward Haitians By Stephen Lendman, Feb. 28, 2009, Atlantic Free Press

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Haitians facing deportation look to Obama for help, Feb. 21, 2008
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“A Double Standard? - Thousands of Haitians Face Deportation, CaribWorldNews, Feb. 17, 2009
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ICE's National Fugitive Operations Program

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Collateral Damage: An Examination of ICE's Fugitive Operations
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Immigration raids target noncriminals

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Most Immigrants In Detention Did Not Have Criminal Record, Reports AP., March 15, 2009, Huffington Post
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We think: Mass deportations of Haitians isn't the answer
Editorial, Orlando Sentinel, March 6, 2009

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- CARIBBEAN CROSSROADS: Bushes snubbed Haitians to the end PDF Print E-mail BY MARLEINE BASTIEN, Jan. 21, 2009
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- Deportations slide under Obama's radar BY MYRIAM MARQUEZ, Miami Herald, Jan. 27, 2009
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TPS for Haitians, Youtube by Azzurra Guerrier, Immigrant Rights Yes We Must, Jan. 25, 2009
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Haiti at a crossroads as donations dry up and upheaval looms
Miami Herald, Jan. 15, 2009
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Letter to the Editor: Haitians need TPS, finally by Former State Representative Phillip J. Brutus, Miami Herald, January 12, 2009
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