Cuban-American leaders press Bush on ‘safe haven’
South Florida’s three Cuban-American members of Congress pressed the Bush administration Monday to allow foreign nationals from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Haiti to remain in the United States for ”safe haven” while their countries rebuild. Republican U.S. Reps. Lincoln Díaz-Balart, Mario Díaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen called on the administration to renew ”temporary protected status,” known as TPS, currently granted to Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans. More than 300,000 are at risk of losing TPS and being deported. Full Story