Homeland Security’s new smartphone app designed to let people sponsor migrants from Haiti comes in English and Spanish — but not Haitian Creole, the country’s most common language, immigrant-rights advocates said Friday.
They called the oversight a major blow to the Biden administration’s vows of “equity” and demanded Homeland Security quickly build a version that offers the language.
“We question why the administration — who recognized the importance of language accessibility in translating the application into Spanish — thought it appropriate to launch a program geared towards Haitians without taking the most basic fact into account: the national language of Haiti is Haitian Creole,” said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance.