Tens of thousands of Haitians enrolled under the Temporary Protected Status program can stay in the United States until at least January.
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How Haitian-Americans are finding their voice in politics and the church
Haitian expatriates have long considered themselves a “dissed” diaspora—in both their new country and the old.
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Recovery Will Take Long-term Effort in Haiti
The people of southern Haiti are traumatized and the landscape has suffered “complete devastation.” Hurricane Matthew survivors “have never seen anything like this,” Christopher Bessey, the country representative for Haiti for Catholic Relief Services, reports. The Category 4
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Church agencies prepare emergency response in Haiti
The death toll in Haiti had exceeded 370.
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Catholic relief agencies respond to hurricane devastation in Haiti
Matthew ruins crops, destroys water treatment plants and leaves a climbing death toll in an already-poor nation.
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Once accepted, now rejected, Haitian immigrants are left in limbo
For displaced Haitians in San Diego and Mexico, the real emergency is what to do now.
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Catholic Relief Services gears up for Hurricane Matthew relief in Haiti
Forecasters expected Matthew to dump up to 30 inches of rain in most communities, with some locales receiving up to 40 inches.
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After Hurricane Matthew, should the U.S. border stay closed to Haitians?
Haitian Senator Nenel Cassy described the situation as “truly catastrophic.”