'We have a moral obligation to protect Haitians fleeing violence, persecution, & poverty,' says RepCori.
, and redesignation for people who arrived in the United States after July 29, 2021.
The letter adds that"this has all occurred amid a resurgence of cholera in the country, particularly in Haiti's National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince. Since October, the disease has killed at least 100 people and sickened 8,000 more, though experts say the numbers are likely higher." Last month, a Florida-bound vessel overloaded with almost 200 Haitians—including 46 children—struck a sandbar. After the rescue effort, the U.S. Coast Guardnearly all of them"to a Haiti plagued by a rapidly spreading cholera," noted FLIC's co-executive director, Tessa Petit.
In the Dominican Republic, which shares an island with Haiti,"the violent attacks against Haitians have intensified, to include hateful bodily harm using whips and wooden sticks," Petit pointed out."All this added to the mass deportation of Haitians regardless of their immigration status, their safety, and in a discriminatory manner, using the color of their skin as a crime."
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