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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 15 June 2017
HAITI: Temporary reprieve from US over TPS benefit
Last month the US government led by President Donald Trump announced its decision to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Haiti – a US immigration benefit which affects some 50,000 Haitians in the US – for just a further six months. The decision has met with criticism from US-based activists and legislators who have been calling for it to be extended for a further 18 months. They argue that Haiti is still “reeling” from the devastating 2010 earthquake, which killed at least 200,000 and cost an estimated 120% of Haiti’s GDP, and from Hurricane Matthew, Haiti’s worst hurricane in 52 years which made landfall in October 2016 and killed some 1,000 people.
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