Posted on 09/15/2009 6:08:22 AM PDT by IbJensen
A year after a string of storms battered Haiti, South Florida Haitian leaders are stepping up efforts to press the Obama administration to activate a designation that would allow some 30,000 Haitians in the United States to seek employment.
``Our people need a work permit to continue contributing to this country and to provide for their families,'' said the Rev. Jonas Georges, a pastor at All Nations Presbyterian Church in North Miami Beach. ``It is a status that the president can say, with the stroke of a pen, `there it is.' ''
Georges' plea came Monday at a news conference in Little Haiti that marked the first of several events this week -- from South Florida to Washington, D.C. -- that seek to press government officials to grant Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, to Haitians. The designation would enable some 30,000 Haitians in the United States to apply for work permits and, advocates argue, wire sorely needed remittances back to Haiti .
On Wednesday, several busloads of Haiti advocates from Miami and other Florida cities plan to rally in front of the White House; that afternoon, they plan to meet with Department of Homeland Security officials. And on Friday, local hip hop stars will gather on Virginia Key to lend their support to the TPS cause. ``Miami will fall,'' without TPS for Haitians, Andre ``McKlezie'' Wallace, head of the Grind Mode group, said at the Monday afternoon news conference.
Celebrities have also come to the TPS cause in recent weeks, including Miami Heat forward-center Udonis Haslem.
But securing TPS for Haitians could be a tough fight.
The Obama administration is reviewing the possibility of issuing TPS to Haitians, though the president said this summer that an immigration overhaul would not happen until next year. Obama is also trying to turn around the troubled economy and implement healthcare reform.
Haiti advocates say TPS can't wait.
``Yes, he faces a lot of challenges,'' Georges said. ``The president has been dragging his feet, so to speak, on the issue of granting TPS to Haitians.''
Former President Bill Clinton, the United Nations' special envoy to Haiti, publicly brought up the TPS issue in August. He urged Haiti advocates to keep the pressure on, but to do so respectfully. The Miami Herald
Our nation is in a horrible fiscal mess thanks to our elite political class and other nation's uneducated misfits keep streaming into the nation further diluting our population with castoffs from another culture.
They’ll qualify for Obamacare, right?
Yup, let ‘em in. We’ve got lots of extra healthcare money for them, and they can drive without insurance. Hey, it’s all on us rich folks.
``The president has been dragging his feet, so to speak,”
Wait - I think that’s one of those racist remarks. He really meant “shuffling”, just ask Maureen Dowd. She can read people’s minds.
Colonel, USAFR
Here's an idea: Let's COLONIZE Haiti! Impose Western Civilization on them by force. Outlaw their pagan religions and convert those, who aren't already, to Christianity. Take control of their schools. Teach them English and how to use flush toilets.
India came out ahead from it's colonization by the British. Look at Africa as an example of what happens when colonization is not followed through to it's completion.
Employment? Yeah. I’m quite sure that’s the first thing they’ll seek.
I'd like to see a list of contributions up to date.
I'm sure it would include a few items like this:
Relieving US taxpayers of welfare money, food stamps, housing money, medical care and medical care.
Helping to make parts of South Florida more like third world Haiti than America.
Bringing urban goat farming to Miami area neighborhoods.
Making live animal sacrifices a common sight on the streets where they live.
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These uneducated louts need much more than mere refining. They will contribute only disease and squalor to a nation that has entirely too much of that.
There is absolutely no use in bringing these creatures, along with half of Africa, into the United States to finish off what little snippet of decorum is left in this embittered nation.
Further attempts by the central government to bring these uneducated and unsanitary individuals here should be met with something more violent then just our contempt.
No, they have a dysfunctional culture. They have destroyed their own country. Don’t let them damage ours.
Another “contribution”: participating in a Muslim terror plot to blow up government buildings in Miami and the Sears Tower in Chicago.
Another “contribution”: participating in a Muslim terror plot to blow up government buildings in Miami and the Sears Tower in Chicago.
I see that you have been to North Lauderdale, Lauderhill, and North Miami.
What do they offer our nation? Are they sending us educated, accomplished individuals (*snicker*) or unskilled labor?
We don’t need any more unskilled labor. The ‘day laborers’ in my neighborhood are already having trouble finding work.
Bad idea. We've had enough problems trying to absorb our current Third World colonies (Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam), to say nothing of the Haole-haters in Hawaii.
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