We, at the Haitian Bridge Alliance, and the undersigned 288 immigration, civil rights, human rights, and faith-based organizations, are deeply alarmed by a report that your National Security Council is considering sending and “holding” Haitian asylum seekers interdicted at sea by the United States to third countries or an offshore migrant detention center at the Guantánamo Bay military base in Cuba, a site associated equally with cruelty towards Haitians and more recently, lawlessness, torture, and executive overreach.
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DHS Limits (But Does Not Actually Terminate) Two Small Parole Programs
DHS Limits (But Does Not Actually Terminate) Two Small Parole Programs
By David North
on December 28, 2020
In its last days the Trump administration proposes steps to reduce, but not end, two relatively small parole programs it inherited from the Obama administration:
One relates to relatives of Filipinos (now dead or in their 90s) who served in that nation s army in the 1940s. Not our army, their army. Not necessarily during World War II, but before December 31, 1946 – 16 months after the fighting ended.
The other includes certain would-be immigrants from Haiti, largely family members of earlier migrants.