Halt Haitian deportations

Inhumane policy makes no sense
Editorial, Miami Herald
April 18, 2011

The resumption of deportations to Haiti revives a senseless and inhumane policy by the Department of Homeland Security. The last time this occurred, in late January, at least one of the deportees died within days, prompting a nearly three-month hiatus in deportations that has now been lifted for no good reason.

Conditions in Haiti remain appalling as the nation struggles to overcome a severe humanitarian crisis. An estimated 680,000 people are still stuck in camps for the displaced 15 months after the powerful earthquake that destroyed much of Port-au-Prince in January of 2010. A cholera epidemic has affected 234,000 people and caused a reported 4,500 deaths. A recent article in the British medical journal The Lancet estimated that, “absent new interventions,” the epidemic could sicken some 800,000 people and kill 11,000. [...]

Read the full editorial:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/17/2172777/halt-haitian-deportations.html

Read about the origin of the cholera:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2011/05/wnu-1079-un-admitsand-deniesrole-in.html

Sign a petition calling for a halt to the deportations:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/383/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6590.