News this afternoon:
The Obama administration extended a special immigration status on Friday to Haitians living illegally in the United States, protecting them from deportation for 18 months and allowing them to work here.
Calling the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake "a disaster of historic proportions," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she was making the designation, known as temporary protected status, for Haitian immigrants because their personal safety would be at risk if they were deported to Haiti.
This came after a bipartisan call from Florida politicians as well as clerics and humanitarian workers. And after years of Haitian refugees being treated differently from refugees of many other regional natural and human disasters.