On a
recent day in Manhattan, the 32-year-old home healthcare provider races
in between patients. By midday, she has already helped transport one of
her regular patients, a young girl with severe respiratory disease, to
school and visited two senior patients in their home. It is a hard job,
but she says it is rewarding.
``Most of the immigrants that I know, they have a busy life like
me,'' she says. ``I leave home like 5:45 a.m. and sometimes get home by
like 9 p.m.''
Joana came to the U.S. in 2018 and was still in the U.S. when a
powerful
earthquake struck Haiti in 2010. Hundreds of thousands were killed, and
the Obama administration granted Haitians temporary protective status. They were shielded from deportation and given work permits. Critics say the temporary program for Haiti and others where
disasters and wars took place decades ago has become permanent and
amounts to a backdoor immigration policy. However, what we need to
understand is what is still going on in Haiti right now. Why this also makes sense for us is that it is estimated by the think
tank Inter-American Dialogue that all Haitians abroad this year--this
year alone, Mr.
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