Publication Year: 2008 / Subject Term: Immigration policy

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Language:: French, English
Publication Date:: Jan 23-Jan 30, 2008
Published:: Brooklyn, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Haiti Observateur
Journal Title Details:: 5 : 16-17
Notes:: Repatriations of Haitians in the Dominican Republic have become an almost daily routine. Indeed Dominican authorities almost constantly expel hundreds of Haitians illegally living in the Dominican Republic. Haitian authorities seem to accept as a fait accompli the onslaught on our territory nationals of Haiti with their Dominican counterparts, regardless of taking long-term measures to stop the bleeding of the labor national work as well as the brain drain to benefit our bordering neighbors. Notwithstanding the ill-treatment Dominicans inflict our brothers, repressed people manage to return a month later to where they are to be expelled. Since, in the absence of a long-term strategy to frame the returnees and give them hope for a decent life in their country, crossing to the other side of the border continues to attract good workers sentenced to unemployment in their own countries.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: May 2008
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Caribbean Today
Journal Title Details:: 6 : 4
Notes:: At the same time, [Jesse Jackson] lamented what he described as the "disparity" in how the U.S. government treats Cuban and Haitian refugees. Jackson said while the U.S. readily welcomes Cuban refugees, it neglects Haitians. "When Haitian children's parents die at sea they are sent back," he said. "We subsidize Cubans to come to the United States, but we ship Haitians out...We should change our policy and measure human rights by one yardstick." "The Cuban immigrants are called political refugees, and they are welcomed in the United States," he said. "The Haitian immigrants are called economic refugees, and they are sent back...There is a distinction without a difference."

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Oct 2008
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Caribbean Today
Journal Title Details:: 11 : 3
Notes:: "That's terrific news," she added. "We're hopeful that Haitians wont be sent back until the country has had a chance to recover." [Kendrick Meek], who represents Miami, said Haiti "over-qualifies" for TPS, bestowed when the U.S. government determines eligible nationals are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing conflicts, environmental disasters or other "extraordinary and temporary conditions. [Alcee L. Hastings], who represents the city of Miramar, north of Miami, said, in his letter to [George W. Bush], that Haiti can "hardly sustain the lives of those currently living within its borders. "How can we also expect it to contend with the repatriation of the very people who left Haiti in desperation and who, through remittances, can aid in the nation's recovery efforts?" he asked.

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