Sign On Your Organization, Congregation, or Group BY END OF TODAY to Support Haitians!
(Top image, 7/1/2020, by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photos-Deportees on Port Au Prince Airport tarmac. Above L image, 5/22/21 Getty Image, from businessinsider.com)
Are you interested to SIGN ON HERE TO THIS LETTER BY END OF DAY TODAY to urge a halt to all deportation flights to Haiti? (Please share with any other groups, congregations, or organizations you think might be interested to sign!)
This letter notes the serious security concerns in Haiti, and asks:
- all deportation flights be discontinued
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prompt return to the US of all Haitians wrongfully expelled since May 21st
- DED status be explored for Haitians
- release of Haitians currently detained, and
- humanitarian parole be granted to Haitians currently at the U.S.-Mexico border
All our hearts are joined with Haitians in grief, in light of last Saturday's tragic earthquake in southern Haiti—now made more miserable by rains from Tropical Storm Grace in the region. If you have not yet done so, please join Week of Compassion in sharing this link for opportunities to contribute and offer assistance to our Haitian partners.
Further compounding the tragedies from the earthquake is the reality that there were also TWO MORE DEPORTATION/EXPULSION FLIGHTS back to Haiti last week, on August 10 and 12. These deportation flights occurred even after the additional insecurities faced after President Moise’s assassination last month. In the last six months alone, more than 2,300 Haitians have been deported into dangerous conditions.
Yet, as Disciples Haitian Pastor, Rev. Dr. Philius Nicolas, had spoken in this article from Yahoo News in March of this year: “Detaining and deporting asylum seekers doesn’t just turn our back on immigrants. It shamefully turns our back on God, who calls us to welcome our neighbors. Instead, we must halt the returns of Haitians and many other Black nationality migrants, which are sending them to face danger and which has cost the lives of many.”
If you feel led, SIGN HERE TODAY to urge Haitian deportation flights be halted now!
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Contact Disciples Refugee & Immigration Ministries' Director,
Rev. Sharon Stanley-Rea, with any questions & ways
we can support the work of you and your congregations!
sstanley@dhm.disciples.org, 202-957-7826
Please help us ensure 2021 continues to be a season of renewal and hope, by donating online at: https://www.discipleshomemissions.org/product/donation/ & choosing “Refugee & Immigration Ministries” in the dropdown menu—or by mailing your donation check to “Refugee & Immigration Ministries/DHM” to: RIM, c/o Disciples Home Missions, Attn.: Kathy Watts, P.O. Box 1986, Indianapolis, IN. 46206
