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End All Deportations To Haiti and Grant TPS status to Haitians
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    1. The President of the United States (+ 2 others)
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      • The President of the United States
      • U.S. Attorney General (Eric Holder)
      • Secretary of Homeland Security (Janet Napolitano)
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    anjanette asenjo
    weston, FL
About this Petition Petition Letter
How We Won

Jan 15, 2010

Great news! Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has granted temporary protected status to Haitian immigrants allowing them to stay in the country regardless of legal immigration status for 18 months. Read more here.

Why This Is Important

UPDATE: The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to halt deportations to Haiti for now but we still need to get an official TPS status.

Haiti is already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with the majority its residents living in desperate poverty. It was still reeling from recovery efforts after four major hurricanes pummeled the country in 2008.The earthquake in Haiti has further aggravated the situation for a country already disintegrating due to successive natural disasters and brought it to heartbreaking proportions. Haitians most definitely meets the criteria for Temporary Protective Status, an entitlement the Obama administration has the ability to designate and swiftly provide.

Sign the petition to

1. Demand an end to all deportations of Haitians, thus allowing the country to stabilize and avoiding placing deportees in surest danger. 

2. Ask that President Obama grants Temporary Protected Status to all Haitians for a period of no less than 18 months, and allow the more than 30,000 Haitians currently in deportation proceedings to live and work here legally until the crisis has passed. This is the only just and humane reaction to a growing crisis we have thus far ignored.

3. Contact Attorney General Holder and Secretary Napolitano to temporarily halt all deportations of Haitians

Recent Signatures

President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary Janet Napolitano

Greetings,

I write to you today in response to the recent disaster in Haiti. This is already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with the majority its residents living in desperate poverty. It was still reeling from recovery efforts after four major hurricanes pummeled the country in 2008.The earthquake in Haiti has further aggravated the situation for a country already disintegrating due to successive natural disasters and brought it to heartbreaking proportions. Haitians most definitely meets the criteria for Temporary Protective Status,an entitlement the Obama administration has the ability to designate and swiftly provide.

I want to voice my support and demand an end to all deportations of Haitians, thus allowing the country to stabilize and avoiding placing deportees in surest danger. Furthermore we ask that President Obama grants Temporary Protected Status to all Haitians for a period of no less than 18 months, and allow the more than 30,000 Haitians currently in deportation proceedings to live and work here legally until the crisis has passed. This is the only just and humane reaction to a growing crisis we have thus far ignored. I strongly urge you to do the right thing.
Sincerely,

[Your name]