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Announcement Thursday: Employment Status and Haitian Immigrants

announcement thursday: But Haitian immigrants and advocates complained Thursday's measures wouldn't help thousands of Haitians who still hold immigration documents showing their legal and work status expiring Monday, according to Toronto Star. And they were upset by another announcement Thursday from the Department of Homeland Security that people from Haiti, Belize and Samoa were no longer eligible to apply for visas for seasonal and farm worker jobs. Officials said the delays had to do with working out how Haitians will be able to prove their employment status until they must leave the country in July 2019. The department's explanation was that those nations had a high rate of fraud, abuse and people overstaying their visa's time limits. So America is doing it for him Some wondered in light of the president's recent remarks about Haiti if the bureaucratic slowdown was deliberate. Read more UN condemns Trump's remark on Haiti, African countries as racist' Article Continued Below Opinion Shree Paradkar Trump's s---hole countries' remark casts remarkable light on immigration policies Analysis Mitch Potter Naturally, Trump won't apologize for his s---holes' slur. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.