Clarke calls for TPS designation for Vincentians
By Nelson A. King
Caribbean American Congresswoman
Yvette D. Clarke has
called on the Joe Biden administration
to grant Temporary Protected
Status (TPS) to Vincentians
in the red zone of the explosive
La Soufrière volcano.
Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican
immigrants, who represents
the predominantly Caribbean
ninth Congressional District in
Brooklyn, first raised the issue
on Saturday after visiting a volcano
relief center, at the Friends
of Crown Heights Educational
Center in Brooklyn, run by the
Brooklyn-based SVG Relief Committee,
Inc.
She then elaborated in an
interview with Caribbean Life on
Sunday, April 18, 2021.
“I am calling on the US State
Department to immediately allocate
an appropriate level of funding
to support our neighbor’s
rescue, recovery and rehabilitation,
and I am calling on Secretary
(of Homeland Security Alejandro)
Mayorkas to designate
TPS status for the people of St.
Vincent and the Grenadines and
neighboring islands that are
located within the red zone,” said
Clarke, who chairs both the US
Congressional Caribbean Caucus
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Clarke — also a senior member
of the US House of Representatives’
Energy and Commerce
Committee, and a senior
member of the House Committee
on Homeland Security —
noted that since April 9, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, and
neighboring islands, have been
severely affected by the eruptions
of La Soufrière volcano.
She said that more than 20,000
people have been evacuated from
their homes since La Soufrière
volcano began erupting, and that
many of the displaced people are
now living in less than 100 shelters
“that do not have the means
to prevent the spread of COVID-
19 — an already emergent crisis
in the region — through social
distancing measures.”
The congresswoman said crops
— including coconut, breadfruit,
mango and soursop trees, plantain
and banana crops, which
comprise much of the island’s
agricultural economy, outside of
tourism — have been destroyed.
She said access to clean water
has risen to priority one, as St.
Vincent and the Grenadines’
main water supplies “have been
Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (Fifth from left) and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
(center) fl anked by Vincentian relief offi cials and SVG New York Consul General Howie
Prince during volcano relief drive on Saturday, April 17, 2021 at Friends of Crown Heights
Educational Center in Brooklyn. Photo by Nelson A. King
contaminated.”
Clarke also noted that the
United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs has reported that the
volcano’s eruption had left the
entire population of St. Vincent,
110,000 people, “without clean
drinking water or electricity.”
“With all of this in mind, I
have written a letter to Secretary
Mayorkas of the Department of
Homeland Security urging him
to assign Temporary Protected
Status for St. Vincent, the Grenadines
and neighboring island
migrants within the red zone,”
she said.
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