GIVE EQUAL TREATMENT TO HAITIANS, INSTRUCT DHS TO FINALLY APPROVE THE HAITIAN FAMILY REUNIFICATION PAROLE PROGRAM.

105,000 Haitians whose family-based visa petitions have been approved by DHS nevertheless remain on a 4 to 11 year wait list in Haiti, where many may not survive. DHS's prompt parole of some of them by creating a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program ("FRPP") would save lives and it would end a double standard: last year, DHS renewed its Cuban FRPP, under which over 30,000 approved beneficiaries have been paroled into the United States since 2009 alone. Ten editorial boards, the US Conference of Mayors, and political leaders of both parties including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and most recently Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick have urged President Obama to instruct DHS Secretary Napolitano to "mirror" the Cuban FRPP by creating a Haitian FRPP