250 attends anti deportation rally in Florida
Published:Monday | March 2, 2009 | 11:45 AM
At least 250 persons attended a rally in Pompano Beach, Florida on Saturday to urge the Barack Obama administration to stop deportations to Haiti.
Speakers at the rally called for the US government to grant Temporary Protected Status to Haitians because of the humanitarian crisis facing the impoverished Caribbean nation.
The country is still struggling to recover from a series of deadly storms that devastated the country last year.
If Temporary Protected Status is granted, thousands of Haitians living in the US illegally would be given the right to remain and work in the country.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement figures show that more than 30,000 Haitians have been ordered to return to their home country.
About 6,000 of them are being held in detention centres.