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Introductory*
City of Baltimore
Council Bill R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Burnett
A Resolution Entitled
A Council Resolution concerning
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Request for Federal Action - Extend Temporary Protected Status for Haitians
For the purpose of urging the President and the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security to protect thousands of Haitians living in Maryland and nationwide through the extension of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status designation beyond January 22, 2018.
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Whereas, The 2010 Haiti earthquake, reaching 7.0 magnitude, shook the country to its core, leading to a death toll of between 220,000 and 316,000. Over 1.5 million people were initially and internally displaced.
Whereas, As a response to the earthquake’s devastation, President Obama and the Department of Homeland Security granted 58,000 Haitian nationals who were in the United States as of January 12, 2010 Temporary Protected Status (TPS), granting them temporary residence and refuge in the United States.
Whereas, Currently nearly 240,000 Haitian earthquake victims remain displaced in camps and settlements. The cholera epidemic, spread by UN peacekeepers that responded to the earthquake, has since killed at least 10,000 and infected over 800,000 Haitians. Even more, October 2016’s Hurricane Matthew took the lives of over 1,000 people, left hundreds of thousands without safe water or food, and further crippled the nation’s infrastructure and agriculture.
Whereas, Haiti’s TPS has been continually renewed ...
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