The response by the United States and its citizens and other nations to the devastation wreaked by the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti and its many aftershocks provides clear evidence of the compassion of our globally connected community. In addition to the tangible forms of aid en route to Haiti, many less publicized legal actions of the United States will have far-reaching benefits to Haitian nationals.
One such action occurred on Jan. 15, when U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that DHS would provide an 18-month designation of temporary protected status (TPS) for qualifying Haitian citizens in the United States to remain here and receive work authorization. TPS will protect certain Haitian nationals in the United States from being forced to return to the island nation, p and will serve as a form of indirect financial aid to the devastated country by providing work authorization to such nationals.
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