Advocates call on Biden administration to renew Haitian migrant protections

November 23, 2022

Rafael Bernal for the Hill reports that a coalition of more than 400 organizations yesterday called on the Biden administration to renew a key immigration program to protect Haitians in the United States from removal. In a letter to President Biden, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the 422 groups led by Haitian Bridge Alliance asked the officials to extend and redesignate Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation. Extending TPS would give current beneficiaries more time in the program, and redesignation would grant TPS benefits to Haitians who entered the United States after July of 2021.

Here is the letter. The lead signatories on the letter are:

Melanie Nathan, Executive Director, African Human Rights Coalition

Erika Pinheiro, Executive Director, Al Otro Lado
Joyce Ajlouny, General Secretary, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Edna Yang and Rebecca Lightsey, Co-Executive Directors, American Gateways
Jeremy Robbins, Executive Director, American Immigration Council
Benjamin Johnson, Executive Director, American Immigration Lawyers Association
Shalyn Fluharty, Executive Director, Americans for Immigrant Justice

Shalyn Fluharty is a UC Davis Law graduate.

We’re calling on @POTUS, @SecMayorkas, & @SecBlinken to do the right thing for Haitians:
Halt all deportations to Haiti
Extend and redesignate TPS for Haiti
Release all Haitians currently in immigration detentionhttps://t.co/liBr5trRQV

— Americans for Immigrant Justice – AI Justice (@Am4ImmJustice) November 22, 2022

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