Bishops urge pause in Haitian exportation

Submitted on February 09, 2011
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By Patricia Zapor | Catholic News Service
A health worker checked on a patient with cholera in a Catholic-run clinic in Cite Soleil, a poor neighborhood of Port au Prince, Haiti, where numerous cases of cholera have been reported as the country struggles to recover one year after a devastating earthquake.
A health worker checked on a patient with cholera in a Catholic-run clinic in Cite Soleil, a poor neighborhood of Port au Prince, Haiti, where numerous cases of cholera have been reported as the country struggles to recover one year after a devastating earthquake.
Paul Jeffrey/Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — A year after the Department of Homeland Security stopped deportations to Haiti for humanitarian reasons, the agency is being urged to back off its recent resumption of deportations on the grounds that civil unrest, cholera and slow earthquake recovery make Haiti too dangerous. "Now is not the time to resume deportations to Haiti, nor would it be morally or politically appropriate to do so in the foreseeable future," wrote representatives of two U.S. Catholic organizations to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

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