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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Thousands of migrants flee to Canada, fearing deportation in the US
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Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre greets a busload of Haitian asylum seekers from the United States as it arrives on Thursday (AFP)
Officials in Canada are scrambling to accommodate hundreds of migrants
fleeing from the United States in fear of being deported back to their
home countries by the Trump administration. 500 migrants arrived on
Tuesday, and another 300 people arrived on Wednesday. The average has
grown to 150 people per day requesting asylum in Canada.
Some 4,345 migrants arrived in the first six months of 2017, and
another 1,000 arrived in July alone. Migrants that cross at official
land border crossing are denied asylum on the spot, and are sent back
to the United States, under an agreement between the two countries.
The "Safe Third Country Agreement" was signed on December 5, 2002, as
part of a plan to improve security between the two countries in the
wake of the 9/11 attacks.
However, the agreement applies only to official land border crossings.
For that reason, most migrants simply cross the border at an unmanned
location. By entering Canada illegally, they bypass this agreement.
They can then claim refugee status, seek asylum, and then stay while
their refugee applications are being processes. Hundreds of migrants
have crossed into Canada by walking along a dirt crossing into the
Quebec town of Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle.
Canadian authorities were unprepared for the sudden surge in migrants.
To accommodate them, Montreal's Olympic Stadium, built for the 1976
summer Olympics, has been transformed into a makeshift refugee center.
Others are being sent to schools, which are not in session during the
summer. Other accommodations will have to be found when schools open
in September.
Some 70% of the migrants are from Haiti, but others are from Sudan,
Turkey and Eritrea. There are also some who are US citizens fleeing
to Canada.
Most of the asylum seekers are from Haiti, who arrived in the United
States following the January 2010 earthquake. The Department of
Homeland Security under President Obama granted Haiti the Temporary
Protected Status (TPS) benefit following the earthquake, which permits
them to stay in the country and work, and send remittances back to
their families in Haiti.
Besides Haiti, several Latin American countries have TPS status. El
Salvador has had TPS status since 2001 because of a devastating
earthquake. Nicaragua and Honduras have had TPS status since a
hurricane that happened 18 years ago.
The TPS for Haiti was meant to last only 18 months, but it kept
getting 18-month extensions under the Obama administration. When the
last TPS extension expired in May, the DHS announced a final six-month
extension. In a statement from DHS:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"The Department of Homeland Security urges Haitian TPS
> recipients who do not have another immigration status to use the
> time before Jan. 22, 2018, to prepare for and arrange their
> departure from the United States."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
So many Haitian refugees have been taking the DHS advice and arranging
their departure from the United States by traveling to Canada. They
were encouraged by a welcoming tweet from Canada's prime minister
Justin Trudeau on January 28, shortly after Trump announced his travel
ban:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians
> will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our
> strength #WelcomeToCanada"<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Trudeau's tweet was followed by a picture of him greeting a refugee
family. The two tweets received over a million likes and
half-a-million retweets. Canadian Broadcasting and Canadian TV News and AFP
Related Articles
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**** Seven years after earthquake, Haiti is still devastated
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People dump trash and raw sewage into canals that run through Port-au-Prince, Haiti. When it rains, the canals overflow and flood poor neighborhoods. (NPR)
Haiti appears to be a cursed country. Before 2010 it was already
almost the poorest country in the world, with many neighborhoods
strewn knee high in garbage. Then, on January 12, 2010, the
earthquake struck, killing 316,000 people and leaving more than 1.5
million people homeless, and 3.3 million facing food shortages.
Then the United Nations sent in peacekeepers to aid in the cleanup.
The peacekeepers didn't accomplish too much cleanup, but they did
infect the water in Haiti with cholera, in a country which had
previously been free of cholera. This caused hundreds of thousands of
cases of cholera. It was later attributed to the peacekeepers from
Nepal.
Billions of dollars in aid have been spent in Haiti since then,
apparently accomplishing little because of pervasive corruption. The
Red Cross, for example, is accused of building only six homes in Haiti
with nearly half a billion dollars in donated funds, and spending
millions on internal expenses.
Haitian migrants have been flooding into other countries, usually in
order to work and send remittances back to their families. The
Dominican Republic recently granted a one-year extension to some
230,000 Haitian migrants trying to renew or obtain residency permits.
Other countries, including the Bahamas and Turks-and-Caicos have also
had to cope with Haitian migrants. Huffington Post (12-Jan-2017) and Reuters and NPR and Magnetic Media TV and Bahama Journal
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Canada, Montreal, Denis Coderre,
Justin Grudeau, Montreal, Quebec, Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle,
Haiti, Sudan, Turkey, Eritrea, Dominican Republic,
Bahamas, Turks-and-Caicos
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Thousands of migrants flee to Canada, fearing deportation in the US
- Seven years after earthquake, Haiti is still devastated
****
**** Thousands of migrants flee to Canada, fearing deportation in the US
****
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre greets a busload of Haitian asylum seekers from the United States as it arrives on Thursday (AFP)
Officials in Canada are scrambling to accommodate hundreds of migrants
fleeing from the United States in fear of being deported back to their
home countries by the Trump administration. 500 migrants arrived on
Tuesday, and another 300 people arrived on Wednesday. The average has
grown to 150 people per day requesting asylum in Canada.
Some 4,345 migrants arrived in the first six months of 2017, and
another 1,000 arrived in July alone. Migrants that cross at official
land border crossing are denied asylum on the spot, and are sent back
to the United States, under an agreement between the two countries.
The "Safe Third Country Agreement" was signed on December 5, 2002, as
part of a plan to improve security between the two countries in the
wake of the 9/11 attacks.
However, the agreement applies only to official land border crossings.
For that reason, most migrants simply cross the border at an unmanned
location. By entering Canada illegally, they bypass this agreement.
They can then claim refugee status, seek asylum, and then stay while
their refugee applications are being processes. Hundreds of migrants
have crossed into Canada by walking along a dirt crossing into the
Quebec town of Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle.
Canadian authorities were unprepared for the sudden surge in migrants.
To accommodate them, Montreal's Olympic Stadium, built for the 1976
summer Olympics, has been transformed into a makeshift refugee center.
Others are being sent to schools, which are not in session during the
summer. Other accommodations will have to be found when schools open
in September.
Some 70% of the migrants are from Haiti, but others are from Sudan,
Turkey and Eritrea. There are also some who are US citizens fleeing
to Canada.
Most of the asylum seekers are from Haiti, who arrived in the United
States following the January 2010 earthquake. The Department of
Homeland Security under President Obama granted Haiti the Temporary
Protected Status (TPS) benefit following the earthquake, which permits
them to stay in the country and work, and send remittances back to
their families in Haiti.
Besides Haiti, several Latin American countries have TPS status. El
Salvador has had TPS status since 2001 because of a devastating
earthquake. Nicaragua and Honduras have had TPS status since a
hurricane that happened 18 years ago.
The TPS for Haiti was meant to last only 18 months, but it kept
getting 18-month extensions under the Obama administration. When the
last TPS extension expired in May, the DHS announced a final six-month
extension. In a statement from DHS:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"The Department of Homeland Security urges Haitian TPS
> recipients who do not have another immigration status to use the
> time before Jan. 22, 2018, to prepare for and arrange their
> departure from the United States."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
So many Haitian refugees have been taking the DHS advice and arranging
their departure from the United States by traveling to Canada. They
were encouraged by a welcoming tweet from Canada's prime minister
Justin Trudeau on January 28, shortly after Trump announced his travel
ban:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians
> will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our
> strength #WelcomeToCanada"<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Trudeau's tweet was followed by a picture of him greeting a refugee
family. The two tweets received over a million likes and
half-a-million retweets. Canadian Broadcasting and Canadian TV News and AFP
Related Articles
- US will deport tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants surging toward California (25-Sep-2016)
- Canada receives record numbers of Mexican asylum seekers after Trudeau's welcome tweet (13-May-2017)
- Central Americans reach agreement on letting Cuban migrants reach the US (30-Dec-2015)
****
**** Seven years after earthquake, Haiti is still devastated
****
People dump trash and raw sewage into canals that run through Port-au-Prince, Haiti. When it rains, the canals overflow and flood poor neighborhoods. (NPR)
Haiti appears to be a cursed country. Before 2010 it was already
almost the poorest country in the world, with many neighborhoods
strewn knee high in garbage. Then, on January 12, 2010, the
earthquake struck, killing 316,000 people and leaving more than 1.5
million people homeless, and 3.3 million facing food shortages.
Then the United Nations sent in peacekeepers to aid in the cleanup.
The peacekeepers didn't accomplish too much cleanup, but they did
infect the water in Haiti with cholera, in a country which had
previously been free of cholera. This caused hundreds of thousands of
cases of cholera. It was later attributed to the peacekeepers from
Nepal.
Billions of dollars in aid have been spent in Haiti since then,
apparently accomplishing little because of pervasive corruption. The
Red Cross, for example, is accused of building only six homes in Haiti
with nearly half a billion dollars in donated funds, and spending
millions on internal expenses.
Haitian migrants have been flooding into other countries, usually in
order to work and send remittances back to their families. The
Dominican Republic recently granted a one-year extension to some
230,000 Haitian migrants trying to renew or obtain residency permits.
Other countries, including the Bahamas and Turks-and-Caicos have also
had to cope with Haitian migrants. Huffington Post (12-Jan-2017) and Reuters and NPR and Magnetic Media TV and Bahama Journal
Related Articles
- Haiti, seething with ethnic violence, may require US forces for a long time (17-Jan-2010)
- 11-Mar-10 News - Haiti's president asks for earthquake food aid to end (11-Mar-2010)
- Violence and cholera spread in Haiti (09-Dec-2010)
- Hurricane Sandy a new disaster for Haiti (31-Oct-2012)
- History of Haiti (04-Mar-2004)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Canada, Montreal, Denis Coderre,
Justin Grudeau, Montreal, Quebec, Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle,
Haiti, Sudan, Turkey, Eritrea, Dominican Republic,
Bahamas, Turks-and-Caicos
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal
John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
