Issues
TRADE
May 17, 2024
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick co-led a resolution to establish the Louverture Investment Plan with Reps. Schakowsky (D-IL), and Clarke (D-NY). Named for the renowned leader of the Haitian independence, Toussaint Louverture, this plan is a 10-year, $50 billion development program to rebuild Haiti to stabilize the country, strengthen democratic and judiciary institutions, invest in critical infrastructure, spur economic growth, and improve opportunities to women and youth to secure the welfare of the Haitian people.
April 18, 2024
Rep. Pressley and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs led a letter to House Ways and Means Committee leadership emphasizing support for the early renewal of the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement (HOPE) and the Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Acts, commonly known as HOPE/HELP.
April 17, 2024
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick co-led a bipartisan letter with Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs to Ways and Means Committee leadership, emphasizing support for the early renewal of the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement (HOPE) and the Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Acts, commonly known as HOPE/HELP.
March 22, 2024
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick introduced the CATCH Act to stop American guns from landing in the hands of gangs throughout the entire Caribbean, including Haiti, and to hold bad actors accountable here at home.
March 20, 2024
The CBC welcomed U.S Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai, Haiti Ambassador Dennis Hankins, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Caribbean Affairs & Haiti Barbara Feinstein to the U.S. Capitol for a briefing.
December 6, 2023
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick co-led ARMAS Act to disrupt firearms trafficking from the United States to Latin America and the Caribbean and implement stronger transparency, accountability, and oversight for U.S. arms exports.
September 20, 2023
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) co-led the HELP Extension Act of 2023 to extend HOPE/HELP trade preferences for ten years.
July 25, 2023
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick co-led H.R. 1684, the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2023, with HFAC Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX), Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-NY), and Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) March 2023, requiring the Secretary of State to submit an annual report to Congress regarding the ties between criminal gangs and political and economic elites in Haiti and impose sanctions on political and economic elites involved in such criminal activities.
July 25, 2023
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick co-led an Amendment to the NDAA including the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2023, with HFAC Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX), Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-NY), and Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL).
July 14, 2023
Reps. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and Yvette Clarke led the CBC in a letter to Congressional Leadership on reauthorization of Haiti Trade Preferences Programs.
July 14, 2023
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick led a letter to Congressional Leadership supporting the reauthorization of the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement (HOPE) and the Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Acts, commonly known as HOPE/HELP. These preference programs benefit the Republic of Haiti by granting preferential treatment for certain apparel, supporting Haiti’s largest industrial sector.
IMMIGRATION
June 28, 2024
Rep. Pressley issued a statement applauding the Biden-Harris Administration’s extension and redesignation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
April 23, 2024
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus McCormick, along with Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Yvette D. Clarke and Ayanna Pressley led a group of 50 lawmakers urging the Biden Administration to redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), pause on deportations back to Haiti, extend humanitarian parole to any Haitians currently detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention centers, end the detention of Haitian migrants intercepted at sea, and provide additional humanitarian assistance for Haiti.
March 27, 2024
Rep. Pressley joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her colleagues on the Massachusetts congressional delegation in urging the Biden Administration to expedite visa processing for Haitians, particularly for relatives of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.
March 20, 2024
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick led Florida delegation letter to Gov. DeSantis on potential mass migration from Haiti to Florida.
March 18, 2024
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus, and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA), along with Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Yvette Clarke (NY-09) and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), led a group of 67 lawmakers in urging the Department of Homeland Security Secretary and Department of State to immediately redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti.
December 29, 2022
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick led a letter with Rep. Espaillat (D-NY) to the Biden Administration outlining the United States support for Haiti relief efforts.
December 6, 2022
Rep. Pressley issued a statement applauding the Biden Administration’s extension and re-designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti.
December 6, 2022
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement on the extension and redesignation of TPS for Haiti.
December 1, 2022
Rep. Pressley, Rep. Cori Bush, and Rep. Mondaire Jones led 14 of their colleagues on a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging the Department to extend and redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
December 1, 2022
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) led a letter of more than a dozen lawmakers urging the U.S. Department of State and the international community to investigate the mass deportations of Haitian migrants and the discriminatory, anti-Black migration enforcement practices taking place in the Dominican Republic.
September 17, 2022
Rep. Pressley and Rep. Velázquez led 54 of their colleagues on a letter calling on the Biden Administration to immediately halt deportations to Haiti and provide humanitarian parole protections for those seeking asylum. The lawmakers’ letter followed the Administration’s resumption of deportation flights to Haiti as thousands of Haitian migrants continue to await an opportunity to make an asylum claim at the border.
April 29, 2022
Rep. Pressley joined her colleagues at a press conference reaffirming her support for President Biden’s decision to end Title 42.
April 1, 2022
Rep. Pressley applauded the Biden Administration’s end of Title 42.
March 17, 2022
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick called on the Biden Administration to end Title 42 expulsions and cease deporting people to Haiti and grant them the legal right to seek asylum.
March 16, 2022
Rep. Pressley and Rep. Mondaire Jones called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky to fully end Title 42, cease deportations of people to Haiti and affirm their legal and fundamental human right to seek asylum.
March 7, 2022
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement on the Haiti migration crisis.
March 21, 2022
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick visited detained Haitian migrants in Broward County.
February 16, 2022
Rep. Pressley joined Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and 100 House and Senate colleagues in urging President Biden to reverse inhumane immigration policies – such as Title 42, originally introduced under the Trump Administration – that continue to disproportionately harm Black migrants.
February 14, 2022
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), alongside Representatives Judy Chu (CA-27) and Nydia Velázquez (NY-07), led 33 other House Democrats on a letter to Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, demanding answers about the agency’s justification for treating asylum seekers as a unique public health threat, how these expulsions are being coordinated, how asylum seekers being returned to dangerous situations are being cared for, and more.
November 21, 2021
Rep. Pressley and Senator Elizabeth Warren led the Massachusetts congressional delegation on a letter to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) calling on them to coordinate with the government agencies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to assist newly arrived families from Haiti.
October 18, 2021
Rep. Pressley issued a statement on the civil rights complaint filed by Haitian families demanding a federal investigation into the heinous actions perpetrated by federal officials at the border.
September 22, 2021
Rep. Pressley, along with Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Reps. Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), sent a letter to Troy A. Miller, the Acting Administrator of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), demanding a briefing and answers regarding press reports of the inhumane treatment of migrants in Del Rio, Texas, by Border Patrol agents on horseback.
September 17, 2021
Rep. Pressley and Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-07) led 52 of their colleagues calling on the Biden Administration to immediately halt deportations to Haiti and take urgent action to address the concerns of the Haitian Diaspora after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti.
FOREIGN POLICY
May 22, 2024
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick led a letter with Senator Kaine and Rep. Plaskett (D-VI) urging Security Funding for Haiti.
May 8, 2024
Rep. Pressley held a Capitol Hill press conference with Reps. Cherfilus-McCormick, Clarke (NY-09), Bush (MO-01), Wilson (FL-24), and Lee (CA-13) and advocates to renew their calls for urgent federal action to address the growing crisis in Haiti.
April 20, 2024
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement applauding the passage of the national security supplemental which she voted in favor for.
April 18, 2024
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement expressing outrage following reports that the United States had resumed deportation flights to Haiti.
April 12, 2024
Rep. Pressley joined Haitian-led activists, organizations, and a directly impacted person in Haiti for a press call urging federal action to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in Haiti.
March 2024
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick successfully urged the U.S. Senate to confirm a U.S. Ambassador to Haiti.
March 12, 2024
Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Pressly, Cherfilus-McCormick and Clarke issued a statement on the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
March 6, 2024
Rep. Pressley issued a statement on the recent jailbreak and State of Emergency in Haiti.
December 8, 2023
Rep. Pressley and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke urged the U.S. Department of State to withdraw U.S. support for an armed foreign intervention in Haiti and encourage negotiations for a Haitian-led democratic political transition.
October 2, 2023
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement applauding the adoption of the United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a multinational security mission in Haiti.
July 30, 2023
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement applauding Kenya’s commitment and leadership to spearhead a multinational force in Haiti.
June 7, 2023
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement applauding the Biden-Harris Administration for their support of a multinational force to address the insecurity that is plaguing Haiti.
June 6, 2023
In response to the seeming collapse of public safety, the rule of law, and democratic government in Haiti, Reps. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Mike Lawler (R-NY), María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) introduced a resolution calling for the redoubling of diplomatic efforts by the United States and its international partners to help achieve a negotiated, Haitian-led solution to the current impasse.
May 22, 2023
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement on applauding President Biden’s nomination of Dennis B. Hankins to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Haiti.
April 13, 2023
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement on the safe return of Abigail and Jean-Dickens Toussaint.
December 6, 2022
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement on Secretary Mayorkas’s redesignation and extension of TPS for Haiti.
November 22, 2022
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick issued a statement on the Dominican Republic’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants.
October 5, 2022
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) and eleven members of Congress urge President Biden to impose sanctions on those financing gangs in the Republic of Haiti.
September 2022
Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick led efforts to call attention to humanitarian crisis in Haiti and launched the #HelpHaitiNow campaign.
August 17, 2022
Rep. Pressley, along with Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Val Demings, Yvette Clarke, and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), called on President Biden to appoint a new Special Envoy to Haiti, a position that has remained unfilled since September 2021.
July 7, 2022
Rep. Pressley and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Andy Levin (MI-09), Val Demings (FL-10) and Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) released a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
May 31, 2022
Rep. Pressley and Reverend Dieufort Fleurissaint, chair of Haitian Americans United, published an op-ed in the Bay State Banner in which they called on the Biden administration to withdraw support for de facto ruler of Haiti, Ariel Henry, and instead support an inclusive, civil society-led process to restore stability and democracy on the island.
May 26, 2022
Rep. Pressley, along with Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Andy Levin (MI-09), Jim McGovern (MA-02), and Frederica Wilson (FL-24), led a letter to United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Power urging her to act to ensure food security in Haiti.
October 18, 2021
Rep. Pressley, and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Val Demings (FL-10), Yvette Clarke (NY-09), and Andy Levin (MI-09) issued a statement following the kidnapping of American and Canadian missionaries in Haiti.
August 14, 2021
Rep. Pressley Yvette Clarke (NY-09), Andy Levin (MI-09) and Val Demings (FL-10) and Mondaire Jones (NY-17) released a statement regarding the recent earthquake in Haiti.
July 14, 2021
Rep. Pressley and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Yvette Clarke (NY-09), Andy Levin (MI-09) and Val Demings (FL-10) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling on him to take a series of steps to support the Haitian diaspora amid ongoing political turmoil in Haiti.
July 2021
Reps. Pressley, Clarke, Demings and Levin issued a statement condemning the assassination of President Moïse and calling for swift and decisive action to bring political stability and peace to Haiti and the Haitian people.
May 2021
On Haitian Flag Day, Reps. Pressley, Levin, Clarke and Demings announced the formation of the House Haiti Caucus, a Congressional caucus dedicated to pursuing a just foreign policy that puts the needs and aspirations of the Haitian people first.