{"id":218811,"date":"2010-01-21T22:01:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/u-s-relaxes-immigration-policies-for-victims-of-haiti-earthquake\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T22:01:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:01:56","slug":"u-s-relaxes-immigration-policies-for-victims-of-haiti%c2%a0earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218811","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Relaxes Immigration Policies For Victims Of Haiti\u00a0Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Haiti_1961_19566337_0_0_7051592_300.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. relaxes immigration policies for victims of Haiti earthquake \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">On Jan. 19, a group of the youngest victims of the Haiti earthquake arrived in the United States for adoption, just a week after the government announced it would halt deportations of illegal immigrants to their devastated homeland. <\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, approximately 50 orphans who survived last week&#8217;s quake arrived in Pennsylvania aboard a military transport plane, while other evacuees, also including orphans, have been arriving in Florida since Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, in the wake of the 7.0-magnitude tremor that all but destroyed the island nation&#8217;s capital Port-au-Prince, the U.S. government granted &quot;temporary protected status&quot; to tens of thousands of Haitians who are in this country illegally and slated for deportation to their homeland.<\/p>\n<p>This means those immigrants can now remain in the U.S. and hold a work permit for the next 18 months. <\/p>\n<p>However, the move has prompted complaints from some critics who said the temporary provision will become permanent. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;According to past history, they will never be deported,&quot; argued William Gheen, president of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, quoted by <em>Fox News<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>He suggested the government should have delayed deportations for at most two months while the intensive recovery efforts continue, or sent illegal immigrants to a part of Haiti that was not affected by the earthquake. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19566337-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19566337\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 19, a group of the youngest victims of the Haiti earthquake arrived in the United States for adoption, just a week after the government announced it would halt deportations of illegal immigrants to their devastated homeland. According to media reports, approximately 50 orphans who survived last week&#8217;s quake arrived in Pennsylvania aboard a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}