As President Obama campaigns for Hillary Clinton in South Florida today, 27 Florida-based organizations and 24 other prominent Floridians have written Secretary Clinton (attached) asking her to promptly inform them of her positions on crucial issues of concern to the Haitian American community, a key electorate, and for a meeting regarding them.
Noting that “Hurricane Matthew devastated Haiti, affecting two million Haitians; stranding hundreds of thousands; killing at least 1,000; obliterating tens of thousands of homes; destroying and inundating towns, livestock, crops, and livelihoods; and causing a surge in cholera cases,” they ask Secretary Clinton “to promptly inform of us of your views on the following concerns, which are of great importance to the Haitian-American community.”
In successive sections, the letter describes policy needs and “asks,” all made more urgent by Hurricane Matthew’s devastation, regarding the needs for U.S. leadership to eradicate Haiti’s newly surging cholera epidemic and compensate its victims; to redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status and expand the arbitrarily limited Haitian Family Reunification Program to save lives and help Haiti recover; to support the positive steps being taken by the interim authorities in Haiti to restart the electoral process; to engage the government of the Dominican Republic to reverse its discriminatory denationalization policies against citizens of Haitian descent; and for the Department of Homeland Security to revert to its pre-September 22 parole and non-detention policy.
The endorsers include a broad range of established service, immigration, labor, and advocacy groups and political and religious leaders, attorneys, and academics.
The letter concludes, “We hope to meet with you promptly, Madam Secretary, regarding these urgent community priorities and asks, and we thank you in advance for your consideration and prompt reply.”
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Steven Forester, Immigration Policy Coordinator, 786 877 6999Expand the Haitian Family Reunification Program to help Haiti recover.
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
www.HaitiJustice.org
So sad.
They must have very bad memory to be reaching out to the Clintons, after their major screw up with the earthquake relief. That was not so long ago.
I think they wanted to give her an opportunity to respond to what the Clinton Foundation did to Haiti. Not that she’ll tell the truth. Just saying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/13/did-the-clinton-foundation-raise-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-for-a-hospital-in-haiti-that-was-never-built/
It’s a good read.
Fallacy Alert:
They did not “raise” hundreds of millions. They raised about 30 million.
But they participating in the corruption that ended in the misuse and downright theft hundreds of millions of dollars that the U.S. Government donated through USAID and other agencies.