ALEX PIERRE: "You are feeling hopeless. If I was in Haiti when that happened, when the earthquake happened, I could go and help somebody that's injured. Somebody that passed away, you take them to the cemetery or do something. And here I sit in my living room, there's nothing that I can do. And that's killing me inside. I feel like a zombie because there's nothing that I can do to my people that's struggling."
FRITZI BODENHEIMER:
Andree La Fleur works at an office operated by Haitian-Americans. They help people with translation services, tutoring, immigration paperwork and other work. She says the earthquake has been personal for her as well. Her six-year-old nephew was killed in the quake.
ANDREE LEFLEUR: "And some of them, they died in the street and the parents don't know where they are. And one day you want to go to the cemetery or something, you can't do it because you don't know where they are. It's very sad, it's very sad. And I don't have words to describe this thing. Nobody in Haiti can forget this day."
Haitians who were in the United States when the earthquake struck will be able to receive temporary protected status, or T.P.S., even if they are in the country illegally. An immigration official in New York, Andrea Quarantillo, explained.
ANDREA QUARANTILLO: "Haitian nationals will be able to remain in the United States legally, be able to obtain authorization to work legally in the United States, be eligible to obtain permission to travel outside the United States, and return to their T.P.S. status."
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