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*** 14-Oct-17 World View -- Thousands of Haitians living in Miami scheduled for deportation in January

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  • The last UN peacekeepers leave Haiti after 14 years
  • Thousands of Haitians living in Miami scheduled for deportation in January

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**** The last UN peacekeepers leave Haiti after 14 years
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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 often appears to be a cursed nation. One of the poorest nations
in the world, it has suffered one calamity after another.

The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) was
established in 2004 after armed conflicts that had spread across the
country. 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. More UN peacekeepers were sent in
the aftermath, including some of Nepal that infected the water with
cholera. Haiti had previously been free of cholera, but now cholera
is endemic.

There have been numerous attempts to help the Haitian people,
including a Haiti Fund sponsored by former presidents Bill Clinton and
George W Bush. The fund received some $54 million in donations, which
was donated to small businesses in the form of grants and loans, with
an emphasis on fish farming, architecture and nursing. All the money
was spent in about 18 months. According to the fund spokesman, by the
time the fund had closed down, it had directly created or sustained
7,350 jobs and affected more than 311,000 people in Haiti.

Now that the peacekeeping mission is being closed down after nearly 15
years, the descriptions of its accomplishments are only lukewarm.
Sandra Honoré, the head of the peacekeeping force, says that Haiti has
made significant progress since U.N. forces arrived in 2004 amid
massive street protests and a bloody rebellion that toppled
democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide:

<QUOTE>"The Haitian people enjoy a considerable degree of
security and greater stability. Political violence has diminished
considerably. Armed gangs no longer hold the population hostage.
All three branches of power are in place with the executive and
legislative branches restored to full functioning.

However, [immediate improvements] have yet to be felt by the vast
majority of the population, particularly in poor urban
areas."<END QUOTE>


So with that relatively unenthusiastic endorsement, the stabilization
effort is ending on Sunday, when the last peacekeepers will be
withdrawn.

The final report on the effort, delivered to the UN Security Council,
listed several achievements, but warned of some potential problems,
eight months after Jovenel Moïse took office as president.

One issue is that elections to establish councils and assemblies at
the municipal levels have been stalled. As regular readers are aware,
this is a story that I've seen over and over, in country after country
in a generational Awakening era, following a civil war. A political
leader, usually on the winning side of the war, takes power and
refuses to give it up, often using brutal tactics, including torture,
jailings and rapes to suppress the opposition. This kind of brutal
tactic hasn't occurred in Haiti, but Haiti has a history of such
tactics, and the peacekeepers haven't left yet. It remains to be seen
whether and when these elections will be held.

A second issue is that Moïse is building an army of 3,000 soldiers, to
fill the security vacuum left by the departing peacekeepers, and he is
taking direct control of the recruitment. Haiti has a history of the
prime minister or president of using the army as a weapon against the
opposition, in order to remain in power.

There's already a Haitian National Police which now has about 15,000
trained members, which was set up by the departing peacekeepers. But
apparently Moïse would rather build his own army, with his own people
in charge and under his complete control. Miami Herald and United Nations
and Public Radio International and ReliefWeb and BBC (11-Jul)

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**** Thousands of Haitians living in Miami scheduled for deportation in January
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Some 24,000 Haitians arrived in the United States following the
January 2010 Haiti earthquake, and they were given "Temporary
Protected Status" (TPS) by the Obama administration, allowing them to
stay in the country and work, and send remittances back to their
families in Haiti.

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:

<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>


According to immigration rights activist Marleine Bastien:

<QUOTE>"Thousands of Haitian TPS recipients have been living
in the U.S. for an average of seven to 25 years. To deport them
and force them to leave behind their U.S.-born children will be a
catastrophe of great magnitude."<END QUOTE>


Bastien says that if Haitians are deported back to Haiti, they'll be
facing famine and poverty. Many will go underground to avoid being
deported.

Bastien is demanding that the TPS benefit be extended not just for
another 18 months, but forever, or until a way is found to get
Haitians off TPS, and grant them legal residency. Miami New Times and Miami Herald

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Haiti, Bill Clinton, George W Bush,
United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH,
Sandra Honoré, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Jovenel Moïse,
Temporary Protected Status, TPS, Marleine Bastien

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