#Marleine Bastien

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Des leaders haïtiano-américains dénoncent des accusations racistes et mensongères faites par le Parti républicain.

Des leaders haïtiano-américains dénoncent fermement les propos « racistes et xénophobes » de Donald Trump, JD Vance, Ted Cruz et du Comité judiciaire républicain, qui prétendent, sans preuve, que des migrants haïtiens volent et mangent des animaux domestiques dans l’Ohio. La représentante américaine Sheila Cherfilus McCormick a qualifié ces accusations de tentative désespérée pour semer la peur…

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Marleine Bastien: Biography, Early life, Education, Career, Awards/Achievements, Net worth, Family, Husband, Activism

Marleine Bastien: Biography, Early life, Education, Career, Awards/Achievements, Net worth, Family, Husband, Activism

Biography Marleine Bastien is a certified clinical social worker, activist, and songwriter from Haiti. She was born on the 3rd of August 1959 and she will be 64 years in 2023. She is also known as the current executive director and the founder of the Haitian Women of Miami, a nonprofit agency whose name was later changed to Family Action Network Movement, FANM.  While she is widely recognized…

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Charges of racism swirl as Haitian Americans, allies unite to protest migrants’ treatment

MIAMI — The viral images of border agents on horseback rounding up migrants on the Texas line over the weekend triggered disturbing memories for Marleine Bastien.

As an immigrant from Haiti in the early 1980s, she had watched similar encounters with law enforcement at the Miami federal detention center, where she protested fellow Haitian immigrants being locked up or deported while Cuban refugees were released.

Miami police would show up “on big horses trying to trample” demonstrators to break up the crowds. Now, 40 years later, “history is repeating itself,” she said.

Uproar over treatment of thousands of Haitian immigrants who have encamped at the U.S.-Mexico border is echoing from the streets of U.S. cities to the halls of the Capitol as people mobilize over what they believe is a racist and unequal U.S. immigration system. While the outcry was sparked by the current border crisis, it is a culmination of years of frustration over what is perceived as harsher treatment and extra hurdles faced by Black immigrants coming to the United States vs. lighter-skinned counterparts.

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Haitians Launch Renewed Campaign to Stay in the U.S. as Six-Month TPS Extension Officially Begins | WGCU News

Haitians Launch Renewed Campaign to Stay in the U.S. as Six-Month TPS Extension Officially Begins | WGCU News

“We are identifying people who are close to Trump to make the case for TPS families,” said Marleine Bastien, executive director of FANM. She said the organization plans to identify 100 business leaders to help make the economic case to the president for allowing Haitians to stay in the U.S.

The Trump administration renewed TPS status for Haitians in May, but for a shorter period than previously:…

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“President Trump, did promise to be Haitians’ greatest champion … And [he] needs to keep his promise, because, in Creole, we say a promise is a debt, pwomès se dèt.”

-- Marleine Bastien, Haitian Women of Miami. Watch our full interview with Marleine Bastien here.

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By Stephen Millies

Fifty people gathered in the icy cold outside Brooklyn’s federal court for a news conference on Jan. 7. They were fighting to save temporary protected status (TPS) for 59,000 Haitians and hundreds of thousands of other im/migrants fleeing civil wars and natural disasters, like the 2010 Haitian earthquake.

Racist Trump revoked TPS for these immigrants and actually called their Latin American and African homelands “shithole countries.” Last January, the 1804 Movement for All Immigrants and other organizations organized over a thousand people to march over the Brooklyn Bridge to protest Trump’s bigoted remarks.

Inside the courthouse, Judge William F. Kuntz heard a suit filed by the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. It’s one of several filed around the country to defend TPS.

Trump’s “shithole” remarks were so outrageously prejudicial that Judge Kuntz demanded that the obscenity be heard in court, despite objections from government attorneys.

At the news conference, many people from the Haitian movement spoke, including Marleine Bastien, executive director of FANM (Fanm Ayisyen nan Miyami or Family Action Network Movement) in Miami.

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Florida vote totals

#Florida vote totals full#

United States Senate election in Florida, 2022.

Click the link below to learn about that race. Subject to Ballotpedia's scope Noteworthy electionsīelow is a list of races in this state that received in-depth coverage on Ballotpedia. Click the links to learn more about each type:

Voters in Miami and Miami Beach approved referendums allowing real estate projects to move forward on public land.Below is a list of Florida elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2022.

Of note: Former Miami Beach Commissioner Micky Steinberg won her District 4 race in June when no one filed to run against her.Ĭity elections: Miami Gardens voters kept three incumbent council members in office and Key Biscayne brought back its former mayor.

District 2's runoff will be between North Miami Mayor Philippe Bien-Aime and activist Marleine Bastien.

Former Trump campaign official Kevin Cabrera is up against Coral Gables Commissioner Jorge Fors in District 6.

8 for District 2 and District 6 because none of the candidates received a majority of the vote.

Doral Mayor Juan Carlos "J.C." Bermudez, who was endorsed by former President Trump, won his District 12 race.

Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins won re-election in the District 8 race, and Florida Rep.

Meanwhile: Two new Miami-Dade commissioners were elected after term-limit rules barred five incumbents from seeking re-election. Of note: Other winners include incumbent school board members Maria Teresa Rojas and Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall.

At a GOP victory party in Hialeah, DeSantis praised the school board wins, saying "Florida is the state where woke goes to die," per Miami Herald reporter Omar Rodríguez Ortiz.

District 8 candidate Monica Colucci, whom DeSantis also endorsed, defeated incumbent Marta Perez.īetween the lines: Alonso and Colucci support the governor's education agenda, including efforts to restrict instruction on gender identity and race-related issues in Florida.

Roberto Alonso, a DeSantis appointee on the Miami-Dade College Board of Trustees, won an open District 4 race.

"Miamians need a true public servant representing our community in Congress and I’m ready to be that leader!" Taddeo wrote on Twitter.ĭeSantis scored a victory Tuesday when two candidates he endorsed for Miami-Dade School Board won their elections.

Taddeo beat TikTok viral Miami Commissioner Ken Russell.

Annette Taddeo won the Democratic primary and will face U.S. In Miami's 27th congressional district, state Sen. Ayala, a former state attorney, defeated attorneys Jim Lewis and Daniel Uhlfelder.

Democrat Aramis Ayala won the primary for attorney general and will face incumbent Republican Ashley Moody in November.

Val Demings, Orlando's former police chief, to challenge U.S.

#Florida vote totals full#

So put on the full armor of God and take a stand against the left's schemes." "It's not going to be easy, but this state is worth fighting for," DeSantis said at a rally Tuesday night. Crist also said that if elected governor again, he'll sign an executive order protecting abortion rights on his first day in office, and vowed to make Election Day a statewide holiday.What they're saying: At a victory party, Crist called the November election the "most consequential" in Florida history. Crist, who served as Florida's governor from 2007 to 2011 as a Republican before switching parties in 2012, will face Gov.Charlie Crist defeated Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried in the state's Democratic primary race for governor Tuesday. These are some of the takeaways from Florida's primary election: The ballots have been scanned, the "I Voted" stickers have been ripped off of our shirts, and the attention has shifted to November.

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Democrats double down on vote-by-mail push in Florida’s Haitian communities

Image from a Miami-Dade county instructional video explaining in Haitian Creole how to vote by mail. Credit: Miami-Dade TV YouTube.

Election campaigners and voting rights advocates hoping to reach Haitian-Americans across Florida said they are focused on getting people to vote by mail due to COVID-19 and educating them about the voting process in the lead-up to the elections.

Much of their focus is on Haitian enclaves like Little Haiti and North Miami, which make up a significant portion of the 107,654 total registered voters in their county’s commission district. In those neighborhoods, community organizations like FANM are sending out canvassers to remind residents about ballot deadlines, answer questions about the process and assuage fears about voting. And they are doing so in Haitian Creole to engage the electorate.

“If we continue to educate voters and encourage them to vote by mail, I think that people will come out, especially given what’s at stake nationally,” said Marleine Bastien, FANM’s executive director. “We’ve realized that a lot of people in our community do not know how to vote. We take voter engagement very seriously, especially now.”

Miami-Dade County is also providing official instructions in Creole for Haitian voters who wish to vote by mail.

Other groups are following much the same script, largely due to the strategy that Democrats are implementing across the state. Karen Andre, senior advisor to Biden’s Florida statewide campaign, said voting by mail is the only way to assure the safest, most reliable count of votes.

“Voters should make their voting plans by requesting their ballots now and mailing them back or by placing them in an official dropbox at an early voting precinct as soon as possible,” said Andre. “Voters can even track their ballots with their local Supervisor of Elections to ensure they were counted.”

In virtual, phone and in-person conversations, Democratic campaign workers and volunteers are explaining to voters the steps of obtaining a mail-in ballot that is in both English and Creole, teaching them to interpret the legalese into plain language, and telling them where to return ballots by the deadline.

Vanessa Joseph, chairwoman of the Haitian-American Voters Empowerment Coalition, based in North Miami, said the group reassures people that voting-by-mail is safe and a good option given that prevalence of COVID-19.

“This is a grassroots effort to equip every-day folks who live in these neighborhoods to help their neighbors who may not be able to read,” said Joseph. “We’re really trying to make sure that the Haitian-American community is seen for its voting power. With so many Haitians, it could potentially change an election, at least for Florida.”

Groups such as the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the newly-formed Ayisyen Pou Biden are boosting their virtual, digital and phone efforts in Creole. In addition to the mail-in-voting detailed steps, they also explain how to vote in person if they choose.

“We’ve been intentionally reaching out to Creole voters in their language,” said Joel Bravo, senior field manager at the Florida Immigrant Coalition.  

Andre said at a recent virtual town hall that voting in person on election day is risky and she doesn’t want to leave anything to chance. She is focused on letting voters know when they can cast their absentee ballot early.

Still, many voters still believe the risk of fraud is too great to mail their ballot.

The Trump campaign’s disparagement of vote-by-mail has added to the confusion about the voting process.

Another issue is literacy, some community members said.

Mavreen Masere, an independent translator, is concerned about ballot accessibility in general in the Haitian community nationwide. She is available to go through ballots virtually with voters — at no charge to them directly or to non-profit groups.

“A lot of our clients only made it to Kindergarten or first grade, and can barely read Creole,” Masere said, who is based in Raleigh, NC. “I can tell that they can’t understand it because they are just staring at it and it doesn’t seem to make sense.”

Zandile Nkabinde, a New Jersey-based professor who has written about immigrant participation in elections, said immigrant voters’ language needs must be addressed.

“For those [with] little education and even for those with education, if it’s not straightforward, you are more likely to just throw it in the garbage,” Nkabinde said. “With the language barrier, something has to be done to encourage immigrant voters.”

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US deports ex-paramilitary leader ‘Toto’ Constant to Haiti | Haiti News

Former paramilitary leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant was deported from the United States on Tuesday and arrested as soon as he landed in Haiti, where he faces murder and torture charges stemming from killings committed during the political upheaval of the 1990s that involved the US government.

Constant did not say anything as he was placed into a police vehicle, where one officer held a mobile phone up to Constant’s ear so he could talk to an unidentified person before he was taken away for questioning.

Constant was among 24 deported migrants who landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, the fourth such flight since the COVID-19 pandemic began, said Jean Negot Bonheur Delva, director of Haiti’s migration office.

‘Blood on his hands’

Some criticised his deportation and worried whether he would be held accountable for any of the charges he faces. Reed Brody, a lawyer for Human Rights Watch known as the “dictator hunter,” told The Associated Press news agency in a phone interview that Constant should be prosecuted somewhere.

“The worst solution for Haitians would be to have somebody like ‘Toto’ Constant with so much blood on his hands walking around,” he said. “It would just epitomise the impunity with which people have committed murder in Haiti for so long.”

Human rights groups have accused Constant of killing, raping and torturing Haitians when he became leader of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH) after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s presidency was toppled in 1991. They allege that between 1991 and 1994, the group that Constant led terrorised and slaughtered at least 3,000 people loyal to Aristide.

Human rights groups allege that between 1991 and 1994, FRAPH, the group that Constant led tortured and slaughtered at least 3,000 people in Haiti [File: Emile Wamsteker/AP]

According to the San Francisco-based Center for Justice & Accountability, Constant had pictures of mutilated victims in his office, and his group would perform facial scalpings and display them.

“Constant sought to cultivate a nearly supernatural mystique for FRAPH,” the Center said.

When Aristide returned to power in 1994 with help from the US military, Constant fled to the Dominican Republic and then entered the US on Christmas Eve. He was ordered deported in 1995 but was allowed to remain in the US because of instability in Haiti. In 2000, Constant was convicted in absentia in Haiti following a trial for the 1994 massacre in Raboteau, a shantytown in the northern coastal town of Gonaives where Aristide supporters were killed.

Constant kept a low profile while in the US and lived with relatives in Queens, New York, until he was arrested in 2006 and later found guilty of fraud and grand larceny. In October 2008, he was sentenced at least 12 years in prison for his role in a $1.7m mortgage fraud scheme.

Constant has repeatedly alleged that he was on the CIA’s payroll, and that he is a scapegoat and would be killed upon his return to Haiti.

There were no protesters or supporters when he landed in Port-au-Prince or when he was taken to a jail cell shortly afterwards. His lawyer, Ronaldo Saint-Louis, told reporters that Constant was being held illegally.

“This is a country of injustice. We are going to fight for his right to be released,” he said.

Constant was expected to remain in jail overnight in a cell he was sharing with several other detainees. An Associated Press journalist overheard Constant asking them if they needed anything before he requested certain things from his lawyer.

‘Dangerously irresponsible’

“I’ve been away for too long. Can you bring me some poisson gros sel?” Constant asked Saint-Louis, referring to a popular dish of coarse salt fish. He also requested deodorant, water and mosquito repellent, among other things.

US legislators including Representative Maxine Waters of California have said it would be “dangerously irresponsible” to deport Constant without a plan to prosecute him in Haiti and protect victims. Waters noted that Jean-Robert Gabriel, who also was convicted in absentia in the Raboteau trial, became a top official in Haiti’s military in 2018.

Marleine Bastien, executive director of the Miami-based Haitian nonprofit Family Action Network Movement, also decried Constant’s deportation, saying it will only create more chaos. She said many of his friends remain in power and noted that judges in Haiti are on strike.

“Does the US government want to export more instability to an already vulnerable nation?” she said in a statement. “Given the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Haiti and in the US, deporting Constant now, and without a plan to prosecute him, is disgusting and dangerous.”

Brody, the human rights lawyer who worked in Haiti during the 1990s to prosecute human rights crimes, also said the US was not a bystander when Constant rose to power.

“The US has an obligation to ensure that the story ends better than it started,” he said.

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Haitians Denied Protected Status Face Deportation to “Nation in Turmoil” After Earthquake, Hurricane

The Trump administration plans to revoke a special immigration program for nearly 60,000 Haitians, many of whom came to the United States after the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Their temporary protected status, or TPS, will now end in July 2019. We speak with Marleine Bastien, executive director of FANM, Haitian Women of Miami.

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Kisa yon Nouvo Pwolonjman TPS la Vle Di? Marleine Bastien Ap Eksplike

Kisa yon Nouvo Pwolonjman TPS la Vle Di? Marleine Bastien Ap Eksplike

3 oktòb 2018 tribinal federal Distri Nò eta Kalifòni òdone Depatman Sekirite Enteryè pou l pa fèmen TPS pou peyi Soudan, Nikaragwa, Ayiti, ak Salvadò. Nan kad lòd sa a, otorite imigrasyon yo deside pwolone TPS la. Marleine Bastien, responsab yon òganizasyon kap milite pou dwa imgran te pale ak VOA.

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Charges of racism swirl as Haitian Americans, allies unite to protest migrants’ treatment

MIAMI — The viral images of border agents on horseback rounding up migrants on the Texas line over the weekend triggered disturbing memories for Marleine Bastien.

As an immigrant from Haiti in the early 1980s, she had watched similar encounters with law enforcement at the Miami federal detention center, where she protested fellow Haitian immigrants being locked up or deported while Cuban refugees were released.

Miami police would show up “on big horses trying to trample” demonstrators to break up the crowds. Now, 40 years later, “history is repeating itself,” she said.

Uproar over treatment of thousands of Haitian immigrants who have encamped at the U.S.-Mexico border is echoing from the streets of U.S. cities to the halls of the Capitol as people mobilize over what they believe is a racist and unequal U.S. immigration system. While the outcry was sparked by the current border crisis, it is a culmination of years of frustration over what is perceived as harsher treatment and extra hurdles faced by Black immigrants coming to the United States vs. lighter-skinned counterparts.

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