Posted on 10/18/2014 6:43:21 AM PDT by dennisw
Haitians eligible to receive green cards in two years soon will be able to wait it out in the United States rather than in Haiti under an expedited family reunification program announced Friday by the Obama administration.
Beginning early next year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will implement the Haitian Family Reunification Parole (HFRP) Program to accelerate the reunification of eligible Haitian family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, who are living in Haiti and have already been approved for a family-based immigrant visa.
There are approximately 100,000 Haitians in the immigration pipeline in Haiti but only those two years away from being issued an immigrant visa for a green card will be eligible to apply. Once paroled into the United States, individuals will be eligible to apply for a work permit and continue their wait for the green card while here.
Haitian and immigration advocates, who launched the push for accelerated family reunification in the days after Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, welcomed the major policy shift but vowed to keep fighting on behalf of all those who remain in visa backlog. For some, the wait is as long as 12 years.
“We are grateful that the administration has stepped up to the plate and done the right thing,” said Cheryl Little, executive director of Americans for Immigrant Justice. “I was hoping it wouldn’t be as restrictive as it seems to be in terms of which Haitians who are eligible to join their loved ones here, but obviously it’s going to benefit a number of Haitian families who have been waiting for this since the earthquake.”
The hemisphere’s worst disaster, Haiti’s quake killed more than 300,000, injured an equal number and left 1.5 million homeless. he expedited program announcement
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> The end game is one-party rule and political annihilation of political enemies. GOP, wake the FReep up.
The GOP is too busy accepting bribes to worry about being annihilated...
> My wife had to wait 5 years for immigration approval for some of her siblings from Thailand. Then it took another 5 years for a “number” to become available. Yes, 10 years. Why do these people get special treatment?
Because they vote DemoRat
Move every Haitian to the US. Turn Haiti into an over-55 retirement community for US citizens.
Where's the downside?
Time to update a classic Florida joke.
Original joke: What do you call a Haitian on roller skates?
Original Ans: “Roll-AIDS.”
Updated Joke: What do you call a Haitian on roller skates?
Updated Ans: “Roll-Ebola”.
I predict Ebola, Eterovirus-68, Chikungunya, ad nauseam will hit Haiti and the Treasonous-Muslim-In-The-White-Mosque will grant expedited entrance to America for Haitian carriers of such diseases.
Not to mention that these people are quite accustomed to living in a corrupt country, where the rule of law is a joke — just the sort of demographic the Rats want.
“MY MODEST PROPOSAL
Move every Haitian to the US. Turn Haiti into an over-55 retirement community for US citizens.
Where’s the downside?”
Haitians are human locusts. They took over a thriving, verdant island and have even destroyed the top soil.
Two legged locusts - look at what they did to their half of teh island after they killed off all the whites.
The other half of the island of Dominica still has top soil and is vastly better off than Haiti half of the island.
There is no need for the line “For what they have done to their land, May God rot the Haitians” - they did it to themselves. Listen carefully, and you can almost hear Satan snickering.
Exactly....
Elections can have such horrible consequences. Say what you will about Mitt Romney, but this miss management of the Ebola situation and now this new flood of Haitian dregs would not have happened.
I understand why people didn’t want to show to vote. He wasn’t our dream conservative. However, Obama has hurt our nation in so many ways. Those that voted for Obama and those that didn’t show up to vote against him share the blame.
He thought we wouldn’t notice with all the concern over ebola.
Is Cholera still endemic in Haiti?
Wait till it hits here. I can see it now. A sick person goes to the hospital and declares “I HAVE CHOLERA, or the FLU, or EBOLA! I have something! Fix it now!”
God damn Congress.
Hey, as long as they're able to carry a sign that says "We demand a living wage" they're good to go.
I think it’s worse than that
I have believed for a long time that his plan is to soften our country for Islamic conquest
I loathe that man
It just never f’kn ends with this sumbish we got as prez.
Every day he figures out a new way to screw Americans.
Gawd, I will dance in the street when this man is gone from the presidency. Unfortunately I will be dead and gone by the time he kicks off of a natural death. Until then he will still be playing Prez and trying to influence our politics. He may leave office but you can bet your last dollar he will have a very big mouth that the press will cover just as if he was still in office.
S. Florida is now worse than a 3rd world rat-hole....
How about just building a pipeline to transport infected feces from all around the world and dump it here? That would probably be more efficient.
This is terrorism and obola is a terrorist.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
He cannot legally serve another term....We have no law anymore. He has made us a nation of lawless unequals, unless he decides who is a winner and who is a loser.
AIDS
Its as clear as day the Democrats are going hard for one party rule like they had in Mexico that lasted 70 years
Black LOVES Black....as long as they aren’t REPUBLICANS!!
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