Jean met with reporters Friday afternoon, hours before performing outside the Little Haiti Cultural Center. The evening’s show was the first in a series of appearances Jean had scheduled this weekend in Miami, where the large Haitian-American community anxiously waits for the Trump Administration to decide whether to renew immigration benefits granted to Haitians after a 2010 earthquake struck their Caribbean homeland.
Without “temporary protected status” allowing them to legally live and work in the U.S., roughly 50,000 Haitians will face deportation.
Jean urged his fans to pressure lawmakers to support renewing the Haitians’ benefits.
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