Haiti - URGENT : Internet forum on the Covid-19 in Haiti and the dangers of US deportations (by reservation)
Friday, May 29, Florida Democratic Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson will host a forum titled An Impending Crisis : COVID-19 in Haiti, Ongoing Instability, and the Dangers of Continued U.S. Deportations."
The forum will include House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel; Leonie Hermantin, Haitian community leader and director of Development, Communications, and Strategic Planning for the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center; Clarel Cyriaque, a practicing attorney who represents immigrants facing deportation; Dan Erikson, senior fellow at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and former special advisor to Vice President Joe Biden; Cate Oswald, chief policy and partnership officer for Partners in Health; and Jake Johnston, senior research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern; Reps. Barbara Lee, Gregory Meeks, Jan Schakowsky, Andy Levin, and Ayana Pressley; and Tessa Petit, Haitian liaison for the Florida Immigrant Coalition, have been invited to participate.
The Zoom forum will be take place from 2:00-3:30 p.m., EST. Press will have the opportunity to ask questions during the final half hour of the event. Call-in information will be shared shortly.
