The Center for Global Development’s Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery initiative currently focuses on Haiti as a case study to illustrate how the U.S. government could use migration as one component of post-disaster relief efforts in the developing world. Led by CGD senior fellow Michael Clemens, the initiative has produced a number of recommendations. Two of these recommendations—adding Haiti to the list of countries eligible for temporary low-skilled worker (H-2A and H-2B) visas and establishing a Haitian Family Reunification Parole program—have received broad, bi-partisan support from the letters and resolutions below:
- Florida State Senate Memorial urging Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to create the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 13 February 2012
- Letter from bi-partisan members of Congress from the Florida delegation to Secretaries Clinton and Napolitano asking to add Haiti to the H-2 list and for a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 22 December 2011
- Letter from 87 members of Congress to the President asking for a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 15 December 2011
- Letter from group of faith-based, humanitarian, and development organizations active in supporting Haiti's recovery and reconstruction efforts to Secretaries Napolitano and Clinton asking to add Haiti to the H-2 list on 11 December 2011
- Letter from National Haitian American Elected Official Network (NHAEON) to Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama, on 14 November 2011
- Letter from Representatives of the Massachusetts State Legislature asking for a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 2 November 2011
- Letter from bi-partisan members of Congress from the Massachusetts delegation to Secretary Napolitano Letter asking for a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 25 October 2011
- Letter from Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to Secretary Napolitano asking for a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 22 September 2011
- Resolution from the Council of the City of Philadelphia urging the Obama administration to create a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 5 May 2011
- Letter from Senators Gillibrand, Leahy, Kerry, Nelson, Lautenberg, Mendendez, and Representative Clarke to the President asking for a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 11 January 2011
- Resolution from the Mayor and City Council of the City of North Miami, Florida, urging the President and Secretary Napolitano to create a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 11 May 2010
- Resolution from the United States Conference of Mayors urging for the creation of a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program on 14 June 2010
- Letter from seventy international, national, and local organizations, joined by three individuals, to Secretary Napolitano urging broad Haitian immigration relief on 12 March 2010