Tag: Haiti

Contents: Haiti people riot after announcement of fuel price rises during World Cup match; International Monetary Fund blamed for austerity triggering riots

The United States embassy in Haiti has asked for further military backup, including Marines, as the capital, Port-au-Prince, remains gripped by violent civil unrest. 

Youth groups from multiple churches in the United States are stranded in Haiti and unable to get back home due to violent protests in the Caribbean island nation over fuel prices.

President Donald Trump is quietly sending a few thousand Liberians homeward after 20-plus years of temporary residency in the United States. 

A majority of people in the Dominican Republic want bans and deportations for Venezuelan and Haitian migrants entering their country, according to new polling data.

Contents: Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board overwhelmed by migrants crossing border from US; Turkey achieves victory in Afrin, Syria, but Kurds threaten guerilla war

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and two left-wing, pro-illegal alien labor unions filed suit Monday, claiming it is unconstitutional for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Temporary Protective Status (TPS) to be given any end date.

Aid workers sent to conflict zones representing the United Nations and international charities routinely sexually assault the very people they are sent to help, a former aid worker has claimed.

LONDON (AP) – Oxfam’s leadership apologised Tuesday for downplaying the significance of a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti and sought to stem the tide of cancelled donations.

Despite Conan O’Brien’s claims that Haiti is ‘a beautiful country,’ and ‘great already,’ during his recent publicity stunt against President Trump’s alleged negative comments about the country, the comedian trashed the country on his show in 2005.

LONDON (AP) — The British government is reviewing its relationship with Oxfam amid a deepening sexual misconduct scandal involving some of the charity’s employees working in Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake. The U.K.’s Department for International Development sharply criticized

Haiti is once again in the news. This poverty-stricken, disease-ridden, and politically-unstable Caribbean nation was reportedly on the receiving end of some unflattering comments recently attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump during a private meeting on immigration, which he and other participants denied.

The YouTube sensations known as Diamond and Silk, former Democrats who left the party to support President Donald Trump, slammed the news media for spending a week focused on unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump may have used an expletive to refer to Africa and Haiti.

The UK Guardian published a report on Thursday alleging that “the United Nations has allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish in its offices around the world, with accusers ignored and perpetrators free to act with impunity.”

Evangelical Bishop Aubrey Shines says the controversy over reports that President Donald Trump called Haiti and other African countries ‘shithole countries’ is a distraction from the truth that the poverty and corruption in some regions of the world is an actual cause for concern.

Conan O’Brien claimed Haiti “is truly a beautiful country” while he stayed at a luxury resort last week.

Haitian nationals will no longer be allowed to enter the United States on low-skilled foreign guest worker visas, a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo reveals.

Last week’s controversy over what liberal Illinois Senator Dick Durbin claimed that President Donald Trump said about Haiti in a private meeting with a group of senators, has brought several NFL players to Haiti’s defense.

Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani claimed this week that an alleged reference to “shithole countries” by President Donald Trump, referring to Haiti and some African nations, would usher in “an epoch of modern savagery.”

Rand Paul said on Sunday that President Trump is not a bigot because the president previously financed a 2014 medical mission to Haiti.

About a dozen members of New York City’s Haitian community and others protested the Clinton Foundation’s cronyism outside the organization’s former Midtown Manhattan office Friday afternoon on the eighth anniversary of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Hillary Clinton decided to mark the eighth anniversary of a devastating earthquake in Haiti by accusing President Trump of harboring “racist” views against Haitians in light of his remarks about “shithole countries.”

In an op-ed for the left-wing Time, actor Sean Penn blasted President Trump as an “enemy of mankind” and “an enemy of the state.”

Paul Ryan called Trump’s “shithole” comment “very unfortunate, unhelpful” at a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee event on Friday.

The decision by the Department of Homeland Security to end TPS status for 59,000 Haitian migrants in June 2019 triggered a wave of hostile reactions from left-wing groups and their business allies.

Kansas Secretary of State and candidate for governor Kris Kobach says President Donald Trump’s administration has failed a “big test” on their pro-American immigration agenda by allowing 59,000 migrant Haitian nationals to stay for another 18 months.

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that officials would not re-extend the “Temporary Protected Status” permits for 59,000 Haitians who have been living in the United States since their homeland was damaged by an earthquake in 2010.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is helping to lead the effort in Congress to lobby the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to continue de facto amnesty known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals.

The New York Times editorial board says Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Elaine Duke was “right to resist” President Trump’s pro-American immigration agenda by refusing to end a de facto amnesty program for Haitian nationals.

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke refused to allow “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) to expire Monday for two Central American countries after almost two decades of continual extensions. Instead, administration officials are asking Congress to consider a de facto amnesty for nearly 100,000 Nicaraguans and Hondurans.

The federal government should provide extended protective status to 300,000 non-citizens living in the United States, says a top appointee at President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.

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

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton was so frustrated about the infamous scandal surrounding her use of a private email server that she was “tempted” to construct voodoo dolls in the images of “certain members” of the news media and Congress, and then “stick them full of pins.”

Nearly 20,000 Venezuelans have emigrated to the small Caribbean island nation of the Dominican Republic amid the country’s worsening economic, political, and humanitarian crisis, Dominican officials have revealed.

Contents: Thousands of migrants flee to Canada, fearing deportation in the US; Seven years after earthquake, Haiti is still devastated