Law School Clinics Release Report Documenting the Devastating Consequences of U.S. Deportations to Haiti
A report documenting the failure of the United States to safeguard the human rights of those it deports to post-earthquake Haiti has been released by the Human Rights and Immigration Clinics at the University of Miami School of Law and the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago School of Law. The report asks the U.S. government to stop deporting Haitians with criminal records until conditions improve and makes additional recommendations to the U.S., Haiti, and the international community, including the extension of Temporary Protected Status to all Haitian nationals.
Speaking at the news conference will be Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat, author of the award-winning novel Brother, I’m Dying, and the foreword to the report.
The law school clinics collaborated with Alternative Chance/Chans Alternativ, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Haitian Women of Miami (FANM), and the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti to conduct extensive fact-finding about the treatment of men and women who were deported on account of past criminal convictions, including interviews with more than 100 deportees.