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January 7, 2009

US Rejects Request to Let Haitians Temporarily Stay in US
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The Miami Herald reports the Bush administration has rejected a request
by Haitian President René Préval and others to allow tens of thousands
of undocumented Haitians living in the United States to stay until their
homeland recovers from a string of deadly summer storms. Randy Mc Grorty
of Catholic Legal Services criticized the decision. Mc Grorty said, “The
successive storms destroyed 15 percent of Haiti’s GDP. That’s the
equivalent of eight to ten hurricane Katrinas hitting the United States
in a month’s period of time.”



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