The Honorable President Joe Biden
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20500
The Honorable Vice President Kamala Harris
Vice President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20500
The Honorable Anthony Blinken
U.S. Secretary of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas
Secretary
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
301 7th Street SW
Washington, DC 20024
Re: Redesignate TPS to Haiti
Dear President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary Blinken, and Secretary Mayorkas:
Today, the undersigned organizations ask that the Biden Administration immediately redesignate Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) to Haiti due to the current extraordinary and temporary conditions. With an increasingly authoritarian president who has been ruling unconstitutionally without a parliament for over a year, now claiming his mandate extends through January 2022, and with well-attended daily protests in response, the political situation is unstable, fragile and extremely dangerous. The Trump Administration tried to end TPS for Haitians, many of whom have been on the frontlines during the coronavirus pandemic and keeping the United States moving forward as our healthcare workers and caregivers, transportation workers and farm workers. It is imperative that the Biden Administration make things right and redesignate TPS for Haiti immediately.
On his campaign trail in 2020, then candidate Joe Biden visited “Little Haiti” in Miami, Florida, and promised that TPS would be guaranteed for all Haitians. Biden added, “There will be no quit on my part as your President making sure the Haitian community has an even shot of getting back on its feet and moves in the direction to be able to realize it’s incredible potential.” He also said, “I promise you, I give you my words that I will be there, I will stand with you…”
Four years earlier, President Donald Trump had promised to be a champion for the Haitian community on his campaign trail in 2016, but quickly broke his promise when he took office. In 2018, he referred to Haiti as a “shithole country”, and then terminated TPS for Haitians despite evidence from his own State Department that Haiti was unprepared to receive 56,000 deportees due to dire conditions and public health crisis following the 2010 earthquake, Hurricane Matthew, and a cholera epidemic brought by United Nations peacekeeping soldiers. A federal district court in New York found that the Trump Administration’s decision to terminate TPS for Haitians was “influenced by White House officials’ political motivations” to “ignore statutory guidelines” and “to abate non-white immigrants in the country.” (See Saget v. Trump) Thanks to this case and Ramos v. Nielsen, TPS for Haitians has been extended until October 4, 2021.
The time has come for President Biden to keep his promises to the Haitian community and to disavow Trump’s bigoted, racist and discriminatory policies, which includes redesignating TPS. Since 2018, the nationwide unrest and political turmoil has deteriorated. In January 2020, the mandates of all but 10 members of Parliament and all mayors terminated due to delayed elections, leaving President Jovenel Moïse to run the country without legislative oversight and in violation of the Haitian Constitution. While Constitutional scholars, the judicial oversight body, the bar associations, and hundred of thousands of protestors in the streets contend that President Moise’s term ended on February 7, 2021, President Moïse has refused to step down.
According to Human Rights Watch’s 2021 World Report, Haiti is currently experiencing one of the worst outbreaks of violence in decades. Haitians of all ages face powerful gangs who rule with impunity and in some cases with government complicity. The lack of rule of law also makes it difficult to hold those responsible for the ever-increasing violence accountable. As a result, the government is not functioning to meet even the most basic needs of its citizens. Women and girls are particularly vulnerable to gender-based violence now, as increased political violence and a weak legal system foster widespread impunity. Haiti also suffers from extreme food insecurity. As Human Rights Watch reported, “According to international agencies, some 4.1 million Haitians—more than a third—live with food insecurity, and 2.1 percent of children suffer severe malnutrition.”
All of these recent factors rise to the level of extraordinary and temporary conditions from which Haiti will need to recover. TPS can promote recovery, development, and regional stability by preserving and increasing the flow of remittances to Haiti and directly into the pockets of people who can use the money for food, healthcare, housing, education, and other basic needs that will help decrease the flow of migration. Remittances exceed foreign aid and make up a substantial share of Haiti’s GDP.
As Rose, a Family Nurse Practitioner from Haiti who worked on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic and herself tested positive for COVID-19, says, for current TPS holders, “Fear and anxiety are always in the background, that I might suddenly have to leave my home. I’ve lived in the United States for 20 years, since I was 17 years old. TPS allowed me to get my undergraduate and master’s degree in nursing. I love my work, I love serving the community in Rhode Island.”
Given the current extraordinary and temporary conditions, we urge the Biden-Harris Administration to break the racist cycle left by the Trump Administration and to redesignate Haiti for TPS immediately.
Cc:
Ron Klain, White House Chief of Staff
Ambassador Susan Rice, Director of the Domestic Policy Council
Jake Sullivan, U.S. National Security Advisor
Sincerely,
- Sahra Abdi, Executive Director, United Women of East Africa Support Team
- Frank A. Accime, Senior Pastor, Philadelphia Haitian Baptist Church
- Cécile Accilien, Board Member, Haitian Studies Association
- Shirleen Achieng, Founder, Immigrant Advocacy Network
- Remi Adesokan, Social Analyst, Haitian American
- Evelyn Sanchez Aguilar, Chair, SAFIRE
- Dilkhwaz Ahmed, License to Freedom
- Mizue Aizeki, Executive Director, Immigrant Defense Project
- Heidi Altman, Policy Director, National Immigrant Justice Center
- Tatyana Ali, Actress and Singer
- Kevin Al Perez, President, Somos Familia Valle
- Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma'at, Africans Deserve Reparations Now
- Erika Andiola, Chief Advocacy Officer, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
- Ireshah André, Manager, Reach Beyond Relief
- Joanne Antoine, Executive Director, Common Cause Maryland
- Varnel Antoine, Director, True Alliance Center Inc
- Donald Anthonyson, Executive Director, Families for Freedom
- Nebraska Appleseed
- Gabrielle Apollon, Haiti Project Co-Director, Washington Square Legal Services
- James Winston Ardoin, Operations Intern, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
- Sulma Arias, Director of Immigrant Rights, Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM)
- Ronnate Asirwatham, Director of Government Relations, NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
- S. Assante, Haiti Advocacy Working Group
- Gabrielle Aurel, President & Chief Executive Officer, Sonje Ayiti Organization
- Hunter Austin, Black Alliance For Peace
- Daniel Zwickel ben Avrám, Owner, PeaceHost.net
- Jared Ball, Black Alliance for Peace
- Juliana Barnet, Director, Protect Our Activists
- Chelsea Bartholomew, Solutions Specialist, Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG)
- Fatmata Barrie, Owner & Attorney, The Barrie Law Center; Founder - Black Diaspora Voices
- Marleine Bastien, Executive Director, Family Action Network Movement (FANM)
- Adam Beddawi. Policy Manager, National Network of Arab American Communities (NNAAC)
- Daniel Beers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, James Madison University
- Pabitra Benjamin, Executive Director, Adhikaar
- David Bennion, Executive Director, Free Migration Project
- Kathleen Bergin, Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School
- D'Shawna Bernard
- Rev. Myrna Bernadel-Huey, Pastor, Buena Vista United Methodist Church
- Kayo Beshir, Multicultural Organizer, Tennessee Immigrants & Refugee Rights Coalition
- Pooja Bhatia, Writer
- Alizeh Bhojani, Immigration Policy Manager, OneAmerica
- Roger E. Biamby, Chair, Haitians United for Progress, Inc.
- Désirée Bianchi, CODEPINK
- Sister Dominica Lo Bianco, Director of Hispanic Ministry, Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
- Anthony Gad Bigio, Professor, George Washington University
- Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP)
- Katrina Bleckley, Staff Immigration Attorney, Haitian Bridge Alliance
- Blaine Bookey, Legal Director, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
- Joe N. Bradley, Black Alliance for Peace
- Bryan K. Bullock, Attorney & Adjunct Professor, Indiana University Northwest
- Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Alliance for Peace
- Rev. Jennifer Butler, CEO of Faith in Public Life, Faith in Public Life
- Jill Marie Bussey, Director for Public Policy, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
- Bonnie Marie Benson
- Laurie Benson, Founder / President, Madres e Hijos
- Lyndon Berleus, Policy Director, Chantlyn World Wide Logistics,Inc.
- Garcelle Beauvais, Actress
- Diana Bohn, Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Center for Community Action
- Melissa Bond, Clinical Psychology Fellow, UCSF
- Karen Bouwer, French Professor, University of San Francisco
- Irene Brisson, Lecturer, University of Michigan
- Michael Breen, President & CEO, Human Rights First
- Clayola Brown, National President, A. Philip Randolph Institute
- Bradford E. Brown PhD
- Julia Brown, Advocacy and Outreach Director, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project
- Angenor Brutus, Coordinator, Groupe d'Appui aux Rapatriés et Réfugiés (GARR)
- Margaret Boles, Member, The Haiti Committee at Holy Family Catholic Church of Mitchellville
- Amelia Burgess, MD, MPH, Sage Prairie Clinic
- Daniella Burgi-Palomino, Co-Director, Latin America Working Group (LAWG)
- Blake Burr, Core Member, Vecindarios 901
- Michelle Buteau, Actress and Comedian
- Community Justice Project
- Erica Caines, Coordinating Committee Member, Black Alliance For Peace
- Anel Calixte, Owner, Radio Planet Grand’Anse
- Noemi Calonje, Immigration Project Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
- Bridget Cambria, Executive Director, Aldea - The People's Justice Center
- F X Martín del Campo, President, South Florida Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (SF-LCLAA)
- Eduardo Canales, Executive Director, South Texas Human Rights Center
- Cindy Candia, Co-Founder, Angry Tias and Abuelas of the RGV
- Antonia Canero, President, Canero Immigration Law
- Paulina Olvera Cáñez, Executive Director, Espacio Migrante
- Thomas H Cartwright, Leadership, Witness at the Border
- Camille Frederic Celenice, Law Office of Camille Celenice
- Johnny Celestin, Forum Haïtien Pour la Paix et le Développement Durable
- Johnny Celestin, Spokesperson-USA, Defend Haiti's Democracy
- Oscar Chacon, Executive Director, Alianza Americas
- Francoise Cham
- Ramsey Champagne, Founder, LMHC, M.Ed., Culture Change Project
- Nadjejda Chapoteau, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Community Powerhouse Consulting and Coaching, LLC
- Eugenia Charles, Coordinator, Rasanbleman Haytien Konsyan and Executive Director, Fondasyon Mapou
- Rev. Wilguymps Charles, Pastor, Evangelical Baptist Church of the Redeemed
- Joseph Cherubin, President, The Socio-Cultural Movement of Haitian Workers (MOSCTHA)
- Ralph Cheriz, CEO, The Cheriza Group, LLC
- Richardson Chery, Policy Director, Projectelev8
- Mr. Convington Chery, Executive Director, Simalo Empowerment Group
- Karen Civil, Chief Executive Officer, Always Civil Enterprise
- Carlina Shimizu Chung, Student, University of San Francisco
- Reginald Clairville
- Jill Clark-Gollub, Member, Friends of Latin America
- Natacha Jeanne Clerger, Councillor-at-Large for Randolph, Massachusetts
- Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough, Executive Director, United Stateless
- Jim Clune, President, Broome County Peace Action
- Dylan Corbett, Executive Director, Hope Border Institute
- Lupita Colon, Attorney, Law Office of Lupita Colon
- Janvieve Williams Comrie, Executive Director, Afroresistance
- Brian E. Concannon, Executive Director, Project Blueprint
- Margaret Conley, Director, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Justice Team
- Sr. Patricia Connolly, Therapist, Daughters of Charity
- Holly Cooper, Co-Director, UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic
- Sarah Cordova, Haitian Studies Association
- Carol I Moeller Costa, Treasurer, MITF
- Robert Cotter, Policy Analyst, Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
- Claudia R. Cubas, Litigation Director, Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition
- Cameroon American Council
- Conchita Cruz, Co-Executive Director, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP)
- Edwidge Danticat
- Annie Darrow, President, Darrow Autism Advocates
- Sister Colleen Dauerbach, Social Justice Coordinator, Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
- Marlene L. Daut, Scholar, Professor of American and African Diaspora Studies
- Lynda DeLoach, Black Alliance for Peace
- Anne-Marie Debbané, Alliance in Defense of Black Immigrants
- Apostle Dr. Fayola Delica, Founder/President/Pastor, Revive Your Soul Ministries, Inc.
- Santra Denis, President & Founder, Avanse Ansanm and Executive Director, Miami Workers Center
- Gina Desir, Empower to aspire INC.
- Arianna de Ona, SVP of Human Resources and General Counsel, Costa Farms
- Sister Jo’Ann De Quattro, Member, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
- Jim De Quattro, Co-director, UPLIFT Haiti, Inc.
- Hudes Desrameaux, Community Advocate,
- Alix Desulme, Chair, National Haitian American Elected Officials Network (NHAEON)
- Myrtha Désulmé, President, The Haiti-Jamaica Society
- David Diggs, Executive Director & Co-Founder, Beyond Borders
- Rev. Phillip Dieke, Associate Pastor, White Rock UMC
- Terry Diggory, Co-Coordinator, Saratoga Immigration Coalition
- Wyatt Dickerson, Student, University of San Francisco
- Sister Patricia Dillon, member, Religious of Jesus and Mary, USA-Haiti Province
- Rebecca Dixon, Executive Director, National Employment Law Project
- Nathan H. Dize, Ph.D
- W. Yusef Doucet, Joko Collective
- Sandy Dorsainvil, Immediate Past Chair, Haitian American Professionals Coalition
- Maureen Duignan, Executive Director, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Vice-Chair, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
- Ricot Dupuy, Station Director, Radio Soleil
- Erin L. Durban, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
- Dr. Derethia DuVal, Priority Africa Network
- Robert Russell Dyk, Member, Refugee Action Fund
- M. Earle
- Jeannie Economos, Health and Safety Project Coordinator, Farmworker Association of Florida
- Beneco Enecia, Executive Director, Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible (CEDESO)
- John Engle, Co-Director, Haiti Partners
- Ana Espino, Executive Director, Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice
- Nicole Estrada, Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)
- Laura Esquivel, Vice President Federal Policy, Hispanic Federation
- Ancito Etienne, Board Member, Beyond Borders
- Heureuse Etienne, Coordinator, Philadelphia Haitian Baptist Church
- Pierre Etienne, HADIC
- Daniel Eugene, Director, American & Haitian Economic Alliance for Development
- Dale Ewart, Executive Vice President, 1199SEIU, Florida Region
- Adam Fernandez, Vice President of Policy and Strategic Engagement, Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG)
- Enrique L. Fernandez, Vice-President, Immigration, Diversity and Civil Rights, Unite Here
- Ada Ferrer, Professor of History, New York University
- Sister Patricia Ferrick, School Sisters of Notre Dame
- Jennifer Ferrigno, Co-Director, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
- Felicity Figueroa, Chair, Orange County Equality Coalition
- Ana and Allan Fisher, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
- Arlene Flaherty, Director, Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Atlantic-Midwest Province
- Dieufort Fleurissaint, President, True Alliance, Inc.
- Elise Florence Finielz, Cornell University
- Andrea Flores, Digital Organizer, America’s Voice
- Leonardo Flores, Latin America Campaign Coordinator, CODEPINK
- Patrice Florvilus, Director, Collectif d’Avocats Spécialisés en Litige Stratégique de Droits Humains (CALSDH)
- Susaanti Follingstad, Core Organizer, Sanctuary DMV
- Steve Forester, Immigration Policy Coordinator, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
- Cristiana Luis Francisca, President, Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA)
- Marisa Franco, National Director, Mijente
- Joshua Francois, Research Fellow, Harvard University School of Medicine
- R. Andrew Free, #DetentionKills
- Netfa Freeman, Organizer, Pan-African Community Action (PACA)
- Dina Friedman, Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice of Western Massachusetts
- Julia Gaffield, Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University
- Esteban Garces, Co-Executive Director, Poder Latinx
- Jordan Garcia, Program Director, American Friends Service Committee, Colorado
- Laurie Woodward Garcia, Co-leader, Broward for Progress
- Marisa Limón Garza, Deputy Director, Hope Border Institute
- Alicia Garza, Principal, Black to the Future Action Fund
- Anna Gallagher, Executive Director, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
- Danielle Legros Georges, Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, Lesley University
- Julie Gersten, Executive Director, Refugee Action Fund
- Malick W. Ghachem, Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy Director, Detention Watch Network
- Geneva Gist, Spanish Language Lead, Respond Crisis Translation
- Patricia A Goggin
- Aaron Goldberg, Musician
- Olivia Golden, Executive Director, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
- Evelyn Gonzalez, Counselor, Montgomery College
- Catherine Gonzalez, Senior Staff Attorney & Policy Counsel, Brooklyn Defender Services
- Sergio Gonzales, Executive Director, Immigration Hub
- April Gore, Community Organizer, New York Day of Remembrance Committee
- Josh Goralski, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Unlocking Communities
- Noah Gottschalk, Global Policy Lead, Oxfam America
- Mindy Grall
- Gustavus D Griffin, Coordinator, Boys to Men
- Thomas M. Griffin, Immigration Attorney, Surin & Griffin PC
- Marion Grimes, Mercy Focus on Haiti
- Jenny Grobelski, Supervisory Attorney, Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors
- Samara Grossman, Clinical Social Worker
- Monica Grycz, St. Mary Magdalene Parish
- Susan Gunn, Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Jorge Gutierrez, Executive Director, Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement
- Maricela Gutierrez, Executive Director, Services, Immigrant Rights & Education Network (SIREN)
- Haitian Americans United Inc
- Tom Haigh, Treasurer, Minnesota Interfaith Coalition on Immigrantion
- Joy Hardy, Government Relations Assistant, American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Helgaleena, AD, White Rabbit Grove RDNA
- Peter Hallward, Professor of Philosophy, Kingston University
- Rev. Jimmie R. Hawkins, Director, Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Public Witness and the Ministry at the United Nations
- Andrea Healy, Volunteer, Mercy Focus on Haiti
- Karla Hernandez-Mats, President, United Teachers of Dade
- Roberto Herrera, Director of Organizing, Resilience Orange County
- Anna Hey, Deputy Executive Director, Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services, Inc.
- Kip Austin Hinton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Rachel Hobbs, Student at George Mason University
- Joan Hodges-Wu, Founder & Executive Director, AsylumWorks
- Karen Hoffmann, Attorney, Syrena Law
- Dale V.C. Holness, Broward County District 9 Commissioner/FY 2020 Mayor
- Bill Holston, Executive Director, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas
- Seft Hunter, Director of Black Led Organizing & Power Building, Community Change Action
- Serge Hyacinthe, Director, Affinity Group, LLC
- Peniel Ibe, Policy Engagement Coordinator, American Friends Service Committee
- Diego Iñiguez-López, Policy and Campaigns Manager, National Partnership for New Americans
- Barbara Lopez, Make the Road Connecticut
- Kim Ives, Journalist, Haiti Liberté
- Louise Ivers, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Veena Iyer, Executive Director, Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
- Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Founder & President, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
- Candace Jean, Attorney
- Esther Jeon, National Organizing and Advocacy Manager, National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
- Carine Jocelyn, Founder, The Haitian Women's Collective and Chief Executive Officer, Diaspora Community Services
- Beverly John, Talking Drum Incorporated
- Sara John, Executive Director, St. Louis Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America
- Kyndelle M Johnson, Black Alliance for Peace
- Jake Johnston, Senior Research Associate, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Jordan Jones, Black Alliance for Peace
- Claudine Joseph, COO, LL COOL J Inc
- Louis Harold Joseph, Executive Director, Haiti Vital Records Express LLC
- Dotie Joseph, State Representative, Florida House of Representatives
- Michael Joseph, Esq., Commissioner, City of North Miami Beach, FL
- Vanessa Joseph, Esq., Chairwoman, Haitian-American Voter Empowerment (HAVE) Coalition
- Anu Joshi, Vice President of Policy, New York Immigration Coalition
- Guerline Jozef, Co-founder and Executive Director, Haitian Bridge Alliance
- Frandley Julien, Principal, Law Offices of Frandley D Julien, PA
- Nao Kabashima, Executive Director, Karen Organization of San Diego
- Michelle Karshan, Executive Director, Li Li Li! Read
- Amaha Kassa, Executive Director, African Communities Together
- Nadine Duplessy Kearns, Chair, Haitian Ladies Network
- Robert Keenan, Marketing and PR Manager, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
- Frances Kelley, Volunteer, Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention
- Deborah Kline, Executive Director, Cleveland Jobs with Justice
- Lisa Knox, Legal Director, CA Collaborative for Immigrant Justice
- Neil D. Kolner, Law Office of Michael D. Ray
- Beth Kontos, President, American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts
- Karl Kramer, Campaign Director, NorCal TPS Coalition
- Ryan Krause, Law Student, Cardozo University School of Law
- Ira J. Kurzban, Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger, Tetzeli & Pratt, P.A, Chairperson, Immigrants List Civic Action Inc.
- Dawn Kwan
- Annie Lai, Co-Director, University of California Irvine Law Immigrant Rights Clinic
- Magalis Troncoso Lama, Executive Director, Dominican Development Center, Inc.
- Kim Lamberty, Director, Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Office Stuart Center
- Sabine Lamour, Coordonnatrice générale, SOFA
- Grace Landers, Student, University of San Francisco
- Joan Laney, Memphis United Methodist Immigrant Relief
- Geri E Lanham, Country Director, Mercy Beyond Borders
- Marguerite Lathan, Board Member, Fonkoze USA
- Axelle Latortue, Education Consultant
- Marie Flore Lindor Latortue, President, AEDAP
- Patrice Lawrence, Co-Director, UndocuBlack Network
- Joshua Leach, Public Policy and Communications Strategist, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
- Deborah Lee, Executive Director, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
- Elizabeth Lee, Volunteer, MAWO
- Bruce Lesley, President, First Focus on Children
- Rabbi Joshua Lesser, President, Bridges Faith Initiative
- Rochenel Marc, President, R&M Institute & Financial Group
- Anna Marie Lesutis RSM RN, Member, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
- Natasha Lightfoot, Associate Professor, Columbia University Department of History
- Cheryl Little, Executive Director, Americans for Immigrant Justice
- Ivan Lomeli, Immigrant Justice Fellow, Orange County Rapid Response Network
- Elena Lorac, Coordinadora Nacional, Movimiento Reconocido
- Raynald Louis, Radio Kajou
- Carline Louis, Caline Collections
- Martha Louise Schmidt, Co-chair, Human Rights Framework Project, National Lawyers Guild
- Wooldy Edson Louidor, Coordinator, Foro Internacional de la Migración Haitiana en las Américas
- Thomas Luce, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
- Paola Luisi, Executive Director, Families Belong Together
- Esther Lumm, Co-Chair, Uncage & Reunite Families Coalition
- Laura Lunn, Detention Program Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
- Michelle MacFadyen, Volunteer, Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention
- Lisa Madison, Vice President of Distribution & Impact, Square Zero Films
- Robert 'Bob' Maguire, Professor (retired) & Former Director of the Haiti Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
- Michelle Marrion, Filmmaker
- Candace Martin, RN, BSN
- John Marchese, Executive Director, Quixote Center
- Fr. Jack Martin, President, Haiti Solidarity Network of the North East
- Yuko Matsumoto, Refugee Rights Advocate/Paralegal, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
- Alma Maquitico, Co-Director, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
- Abby Maxman, President and CEO, Oxfam America
- Jessica Maxwell, Executive Director, Workers Center of Central New York
- Maya Maxym, MD, PhD, FAAP, Leadership Council, Indivisible Hawaii
- Yareliz Mendez-Zamora, TPS Coordinator, Florida Immigrant Coalition
- Yaritza Mendez, Co-Director of Organizing, Make the Road New York
- Ruth Messinger, Global Ambassador, American Jewish World Service
- Sister Eileen McDonnell, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
- Adam McGovern, Legislative Strategist, Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center
- Marva Shand McIntosh, Founder, I Love to Listen Day
- Eilis McCulloh, Board President, Akron Interfaith Immigration Advocates
- Patrick McCann, Past national president, current vice-president chapter 032, Veterans For Peace
- Carolyn Mellin, Managing Director, Summits Education
- Gepsie Metellus, Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center
- Sarnia Michel
- Melinda Miles, Coordinator, Haiti Response Coalition
- Anne Marie Miller, Leadership, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
- Mariana Miller-D'Alessandro, JPIC and Climate Care of Good Shepherd Church
- Erna Milien, Esq., Founder, Milien Law Practice PLLC
- Maurice Mitchell, National Director, Working Families Party
- Abdi Mohamoud, Horn of Africa Community
- Elora Mukherjee, Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic
- Douglas Mundo, Executive Director, Multicultural Center of Marin
- Venice P Mundle-Harvey, Owner, Venice Mundle-Harvey Inc.
- Leo Murrieta, Director, Make the Road Nevada
- Paul Andre Mondesir, CEO, Ciel Sur Terre
- Michèle Montas, former Director, Radio Haiti
- Avideh Moussavian, Legal Director, National Immigration Law Center
- Marline Monestime, Executive Director, Haitian American Professionals Coalition, Inc.
- Romina Montenegro, Florida Advocacy Coordinator, United We Dream
- Rev. Mary Katherine Morn, President/CEO, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
- Jenna Mullender
- Owen Murphy, Business Representative (ret.), IUPAT Sign and Display Union
- Juliana Macedo do Nascimento, Senior Advocacy Manager, United We Dream Network
- Valerie Nash, Nash & Associates
- Eskinder Negash, President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
- Anthony Ng, Dream Resource Center Director, UCLA Labor Center
- Elizabeth Nguyen, Immigration Bond Coordinator, Community Justice Exchange
- Nathan Nickerson RN, DrPH
- Guerda Nicolas, University of Miami; School of Education
- Robert Nicolas, Executive Director, AME-SADA, INC.
- Cheryl Nichols, Coordinator of Accompaniment, Immigrant Support Group of St. Camillus Parish
- Edward Nizalowski, Peace Action
- Mary Novak, Executive Director, NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
- Shurland Oliver, Executive Director, Caribbean-American Education & Innovation Fund
- Adriel D. Orozco, Executive Director, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center
- Ana Ortega, Advocacy Strategist, Human Rights First
- Maria G. Ortiz, Freedom Campaign Coordinator, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
- Tunde Osazua, Coordinator, U.S. Out of Africa Network
- Marley Otto, Organizer, White People for Black Lives
- Kelly Overton, Executive Director, Border Kindness
- Tessa Painson, Director of Finance and Operations, Florida Immigrant Coalition, Inc.
- Jose Palma, Coordinator, Comité TPS Massachusetts
- Sarah Palmer, Law Clerk, Celedon Law
- Alison Leal Parker, US Program Managing Director, Human Rights Watch
- Myriam Paul
- Genevieve Paul, Manager, Ministry of Reconciliation
- Abraham Paulos, Deputy Director, Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Melissa Padberg
- Priya Arvind Patel, Supervising Attorney, Centro Legal de la Raza
- Glenda Pawsey, Co-Chair Mission and Justice Commission, St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley
- Sharrona Pearl, Associate Professor, Drexel University
- Maryse Pénette-Kedar, President, PRODEV Foundation
- Margaret Perron, Religious of Jesus and Mary
- Camilo Perez-Bustillo, Co-Founder, Witness at the Border, Coordinator, International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement, and Co-Founder, Foro Migración Haitiana en las Américas
- Marjean A. Perhot, Division Director, Refugee and Immigrant Services, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston
- Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Senior Vice President, Union for Reform Judaism
- Nicole Phillips, Legal Director, Haitian Bridge Alliance
- Folake Phillips, Founder & Executive Director, AWO Center
- Dr. Jemima Pierre, Coordinator - Haiti Team, Black Alliance for Peace
- Raygnol Pierre, Policy Director, Haitian Catholic Church
- Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, Chairperson, The Haitian Roundtable
- Raoul Pierre-Louis, Executive Director, Fondation CERDEL
- Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
- Lynn A Powe, Chair of Social Justice Committee, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
- Sony Prosper, Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan
- Paul Anthony Pumphrey, Coordinating Committee Member, Black Alliance For Peace
- Carol Sandy Przybylak, Secretary, Green Party of Erie County
- Marithza Quiroz, African Advocacy Network
- Ali Rahnama, Immigration Manager, Immigration and Refugee Program, Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Kirsten Rambo, Executive Director, ASISTA Immigration Assistance
- Nicole Elizabeth Ramos, Director, Border Rights Project, Al Otro Lado
- Kate Ramsey, Associate Professor of History, University of Miami
- Ninaj Raoul, Executive Director, Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
- Meryl Ranzer, Campaign & Media Coordinator, New Sanctuary Coalition
- Michael D Ray, Former Southern Regional Vice President, National Lawyers Guild
- Mosctha RD
- Sofia Negrete Retamales, Community Organizer for Immigrant Rights, Comunidades Unidas
- Carl Redwood, Project Director, Pittsburgh Black Worker Center
- Anna Reeve, Education Consultant, Haiti
- Daniel Registre, Pastor, Église Baptiste Mahanaïm.
- John Reid, Haiti Twinning and Projects Coordinator, St. Mary's Catholic Church Barnesville, MD
- Pamela Resendiz, Executive Director, Colorado Jobs with Justice
- Bliss Requa-Trautz, Executive Director, Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center
- Micheline Rice-Maximin, Professor of Caribbean Literatures, Swarthmore College
- Linda Rivas, Executive Director, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
- Jess Morales Rocketto, Co-Chair, Families Belong Together
- Alan E Roselius, Chair, Newman Hall Nonviolent Committee Holy Spirit Church Berkeley
- Greisa Martinez Rosas, United We Dream Network
- Jaja Robinson, Black Alliance for Peace
- Mike de la Rocha, Co-founder, Revolve Impact
- Elket Rodriguez, Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy and Missions Specialist, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
- Kyla Roland, Black Alliance for Peace
- Phyllisia Ross, CEO, Phyllisia Ross Mizik LLC, Phyllisia Deleana Publishing LLC, Phyllisia Ross Trademarks LLC, Phyllisia Ross Copyrights LLC
- Jesus Ruiz, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
- Demeter Russafov, Executive Director, AMURT-Haiti
- Jonathan Ryan, CEO & President, RAICES
- Seydi Sarr, Executive Director, African Bureau for Immigration and Social Affairs
- Rocio Saenz, Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- Marie M. Saint Cyr, Advisor, Haitian Women Collective
- Jean Eddy Saint-Paul, Professor of Sociology & Founder Haitian Studies Institute, CUNY Brooklyn College
- Leslie Salgado, Chair, Friends of Latin America
- Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)
- Felicia Samponaro, Director, The Sidewalk School
- Xochitl G Sanchez, Organizer, Central American Resource Center-LA
- Madeleine Sandefur, Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley
- Rick Santos, President and Chief Executive Office, Church World Service
- Seydi Sarr, Executive Director, African Bureau for Immigration and Social Affairs
- Catherine Sarther, Board of Directors, Beyond Borders
- Yael Schacher, Senior U.S. Advocate, Refugees International
- Traci Schlesinger, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, DePaul University
- Ann Scholz, SSND, Associate Director for Social Mission, Leadership Conference of Women Religious
- Mark Schuller, President, Haitian Studies Association
- Todd Schulte, President, FWD.us
- Ghita Schwarz, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
- Mona Scott-Young, Chief Executive Officer, Monami Entertainment
- Margaret Seiler, Volunteer, Witness at the Border
- Peter Seidman, Activist, US Hands Off Cuba and Venezuela South Florida Coalition
- Alyssa G. Sepinwall, Professor
- Michelle Seyler, Executive Director, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
- Kimberly Serrano, Messaging Research Project Manager, California Immigrant Policy Center
- Jennifer Sevilla, Director, Austin Border Relief
- Katelin Sha, student, University of San Francisco
- Silky Shah, Executive Director, Detention Watch Network
- Tamara Shamir, Harvard College
- Frank Sharry, Executive Director, America's Voice
- Kiel Shaub, Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles
- David M. Shaw, Black Alliance for Peace
- Sirine Shebaya, Executive Director, National Immigration Project (NIP-NLG)
- Audrey Shipp, Black Alliance for Peace
- Dr. Kristina Shull, Assistant Professor of History, UNC Charlotte
- Kaveena Singh, Attorney, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
- Erica Smiley, Executive Director, Jobs With Justice
- Diane Jean Smith, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, LA
- Greg Smith, Director of Independence and Learning Support, LUCHA Ministries, Inc.
- Michael Smith, Director, Refugee Rights Program
- Harold A. Solis, Deputy Legal Director, Make the Road New York
- Barbara Peña Solis, RAICES, Associate Vice President of Advocacy
- Michael Sonnenschein, Development Economics Research Fellow, Emergent Ventures
- Donald Read Spear, Owner, Cuentacuentos Mezcal
- Richard Sprout, Chair, Broome Tioga Green Party
- SPLC Action Fund
- Rev. Eugene P. Squeo, President, New Jersey Forum for Human Rights
- Ivana Staiti, Social Worker, Partnerships for Trauma Recovery
- Rev. Dr. Sharon Stanley-Rea, Director, Disciples Refugee & Immigration Ministries
- Lina Srivastava, Lina Srivastava, CIEL
- Carrie Stengel, Executive Director, Sister Parish, inc.
- Linda Stilling, Member, School Sisters of Notre Dame
- Jean Stockdale, Program Director, Reformed Church of Highland Park Affordable Housing Corporation (RCHP-AHC)
- Irwin P. Stotzky, Professor, University of Miami School of Law
- Charles M. Strom, Orange County Jewish Coalition for Refugees
- Lise Strom, Advisory Council, Orange County Jewish Coalition for Refugees
- Ronald Surin, President & Managing Partner, Haitian-American Democratic Club of Broward County, FL
- Yifat Susskind, Executive Director, MADRE
- Kerri Talbot, Deputy Director, Immigration Hub
- Ana Maria Fores Tamayo, Executive Director, Refugee Support Network
- Jessica Tang, President, Boston Teachers Union
- Geoff Thale, President, Washington Office on Latin America
- Barbara Thelamour, Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
- Rev. Linda Theophilus, Pastor, Emmanuel Lutheran Church
- Michael L. Thomas, Black Alliance for Peace
- Lindsay Toczylowski, Executive Director, Immigrant Defenders Law Center
- Opal Tometi, Co-founder, Diaspora Rising
- Alicia Torres, Organizer, ICE Fuera de Austin
- Gustavo Torres, Executive Director, CASA of Maryland
- Aleta Alston Toure, Member, Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative
- Lynn Tramonte, Director, Ohio Immigrant Alliance
- Troi Tran, Organizer, USF Mutual Aid
- Mau Trejo, Orange County Rapid Response Network (OCRRN) Steering Committee
- Karen C. Tumlin, Director & Founder, Justice Action Center
- Nsé Ufot, Chief Executive Officer, New Georgia Project Action Fund
- Gustavo Vargas, Organizer, Colectivo Kawsay
- Sunil Varghese, Policy Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
- Margaret Brown Vega, Coordinator, Advocate Visitors with Immigrants in Detention
- Vanessa Velasco, Community Advocacy and Engagement Coordinator, Central American Resource Center of Northern CA - CARECEN SF
- Ramon Valdez, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Director of Strategic Initiatives
- Amilcar Valencia, Executive Director, El Refugio
- Julie Varughese, Coordinator, Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network
- Chantalle F. Verna, Associate Professor of History and International Relations, Florida International University
- Emilio Vicente, Communications & Policy Director, Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement
- Tracy Vertus, President, Reach Beyond Relief Inc
- Hardy Vieux, Senior Vice President, Legal, Human Rights First
- Jean Eddy Vincent, Pastor, The Church of God of Bethesda
- Jessica Vosburgh, Executive Director, Adelante Alabama Worker Center
- Laura Wagner, Haitian Creole Team Lead, Respond Crisis Translation
- Michael Walters, Professor, New Jersey City University
- Vince Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
- Rumi Weaver, Black Alliance for Peace
- James R Weisgerber, Co-Chairman, St Bernadette Haiti Twinning Committee
- Alice E Wiener, Lead Psychologist, Psychological Associates of Northwest GA Inc
- Charlotte Wiener, International Managing Director, Human Rights Attorney
- Lois Wilcken, Executive Director, La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
- Rev. Gary Bernard Williams, Senior Pastor, Saint Mark United Methodist Church
- Charlene Wilkinson, Founder Member, Guyana-Haiti Support Group
- Dex Winful, Chief Operating Officer, Okaapp.com
- Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Associate Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
- Mel Wilson, Senior Policy Advisor, National Association of Social Workers
- Sara E Wolf, Program Coordinator, InnovEd-Universite Quisqueya
- Jenny Wun, Operations Director, AAPI Women Lead
- Zeri Yilma, Managing Director, The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)
- Mary Vivian Zelaya, Board Member, Ecumenical Peace Institute
- Eddy Zheng, Founder & President, New Breath Foundation
- Rabbi Jill Zimmerman, Rabbi, Path With Heart
- Sejal Zota, Legal Director, Just Futures Law
- Elaine Zuckerman, President, Gender Action
