Friend, Like you, I was stunned and sickened to see pictures of U.S. customs agents using horses to whip and round up Haitian refugees. I will never forget those images of blatant anti-Black racism at our border. Today, I am on my way to Del Rio, Texas with Haitian clergy from Florida and across the Faith in Action network. We are going as part of an international campaign to stop deportation flights to Haiti and allow Haitian refugees at our border humanitarian relief so that they can exercise their legal right to apply for asylum. Tell the White House and Your Members of Congress to stop abusing and deporting Haitian Refugees. We are demanding that the Administration stop using force and violence against refugees and hold the Customs and Border Patrol officials accountable for the horrific actions that occurred this week, part of a long history of abuse at the border. We are also demanding that President Biden and Vice President Harris honestly confront the role that the U.S. government has played in supporting a small circle of corrupt elites and repeatedly choosing Haiti’s rulers, with disastrous consequences for ordinary Haitian people. As the President’s Special Envoy to Haiti said in his resignation letter this week, “what our Haitian friends really want, and need, is the opportunity to chart their own course, without international puppeteering and favored candidates" hand-picked by the U.S. State Department. We know that as children of God our fates are tied together. The struggle for democracy in Haiti is inseparable from the work we are doing to treat refugees with dignity and the campaign we are waging for a path to citizenship for our families, friends and neighbors who have made the U.S. home for years. Please join me in taking this moment to deliver a loud and unmistakable message to the White House and Congress that we want a humane approach to immigrants, not a continuation of the cruel and racist policies of the last Administration. | 
