And then the Jubilee Act passed last month which would assist Haiti in its international debt load and recommends the immediate cancellation of Haitis outstanding debts. Solutions for the food crisis. With respect to Haiti. we need to extend temporary protected status to Haitians in our country. allowing them to work legally here. enabling them to send remittances home. This is the most inexpensive form of aid we can grant to Haiti. When remittances are sent home. it forms about a quarter of Haitis GDP at this point. and so we would be doing not only ourselves a service but a service to the people of Haiti and Haitian Americans here in our hemisphere.
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