-Stop Deportation of Haitians
By:Shyheim Etienne
How would you feel if someone blocked you from entering their country? Well Haitians are people who are often not allowed to travel to certain countries.
‘’In the United States alone there are an estimated 1.2 million Haitians, not including undocumented immigrants plus 200,000 in Canada and an estimated 2,000,000 in the Dominican Republic’’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_diaspora
No one knows how many Haitians are living illegally in the United States.http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1982.htm
On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 2,000 undocumented Haitian workers were sent back to their homeland from the Dominican Republic because they allegedly left illegally.
This situation caught my attention because I have often seen illegal Haitian immigrants in the Virgin Islands getting detained in the boat terminal from St. Thomas to St. John by US Customs and Immigration officers.
In the article that got my attention, “A priest who speaks out for Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic said that he requested last month that the Dominican Republic's government allow undocumented Haitians to freely cross over to the Dajobon border for the holidays but the immigration director Jose Ricardo Taveras said no agreement was ever granted.” For more details please click the following link: http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/mobile/business/Haitian-workers-protest-at-Dominican-govt-dept_13352225
I feel that we can't tell who is lying about this incident because a priest is supposed to be a man of God which means he has to tell the truth at all times .
Haitians come to the United States to seek a better life for themselves and the families they left back home. They are rarely involved in killing or robbing people in the United States and should be able to live their lives without being bothered by US Customs officers.
“Haitians in the Virgin Islands are nice; they don't bother me. I just feel that they are here working harder than a lot of people because they struggled to get here,” said Zuri Hodge, a senior at Kean High School.
The United States needs to allow this set of people to enter our county, because on Jan 10, 2010 Haiti was struck by an earthquake that killed roughly 316,000 people. The estimated cost of everything that was destroyed was $8 to $14 billion. Haiti is now developing better than before, but still Haitians are suffering from starvation and no shelter.
http://www.merlinusa.org/where-we-work/haiti/?gclid=CIacwprGpLUCFQyDnQodC0gAVQ
