To learn more about Haiti and get involved in efforts to help bring aid to Haitians, visit www.afsc.org [5].

Haiti's ongoing political crisis and deepening human rights catastrophe leads the American Friends Service Committee to call upon the Bush Administration and the US Department of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for Temporary Protective Status (TPS). Under this designation, Haitians in the US would not be deported while it remains unsafe for them to return home.

TPS is both a moral as well as a practical measure, whose judicious application is in the best tradition of citizen compassion toward those seeking refuge from civil strife or natural disaster. Granting TPS would contribute to some lessening of pressures in Haiti and to heightened chances for restoration of rule of law, democratic governance, and improved social and economic conditions.