I 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5316
To designate Haiti, Grenada, and the Cayman Islands under section 244 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act in order to make nationals 
of those countries eligible for temporary protected status under such 
section. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 8, 2004
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida (for himself, Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, 
Mr. RUSH, Mr. TOWNS, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, and Mr. DEUTSCH) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary 
A BILL 
To designate Haiti, Grenada, and the Cayman Islands under 
section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act in 
order to make nationals of those countries eligible for 
temporary protected status under such section.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency Relief for 
Caribbean Nationals Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following:
(1) Haiti, Grenada, and the Cayman Islands 
have been severely devastated by Tropical Storm 
Jeanne and Hurricane Ivan. 
(2) On September 16, 2004, Tropical Storm 
Jeanne struck the Dominican Republic and Haiti. 
(3) In Haiti, more than 1,500 people are known 
dead while more than 1,000 people are missing as 
a result of Tropical Storm Jeanne. 
(4) After visiting the stricken northern city of 
Gonoies, Haiti, Prime Minister Gerard Latortue 
stated ‘‘We have a problem with bodies: there is a 
risk of epidemic. If you can picture this: there is no 
electricity, the morgues are not working, there is 
water everywhere.’’. 
(5) A United Nations spokesman stated that 
the corpses of victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne in 
Haiti had to be buried in mass graves as soon as 
possible to stop disease from spreading. 
(6) Dieufort Deslorges, spokesman for the civil 
protection agency of Haiti, stated that 250,000 peo-
ple were homeless across the country and at least 
4,000 homes were destroyed with thousands more 
damaged as a result of the storm. 
(7) When Tropical Storm Jeanne hit, Haiti was 
already struggling to deal with political instability
and the aftermath of serious floods that occurred in 
May 2004. 
(8) Hurricane Ivan killed 39 people in Grenada 
and left 40,000 of its 90,000 inhabitants living in a 
few hundred houses, schools, and churches that have 
been converted into shelters. 
(9) Prime Minister of Grenada Keith Mitchell, 
whose official residence was destroyed by Hurricane 
Ivan, declared a national disaster and stated that 
the island was ‘‘90 percent devastated’’. 
(10) Hurricane Ivan struck St. George, the cap-
ital of Grenada, with 125 mile per hour winds that 
flattened homes, disrupted power, damaged the main 
hospital, and destroyed the emergency operations 
center, the main prison, and many schools. 
(11) On September 15, 2004, electrical engi-
neers funded by the Office of United States Foreign 
Disaster Assistance of the United States Agency for 
International Development assessed damage across 
Grenada and estimated that 85 to 90 percent of the 
electricity systems on the west and north coasts of 
Grenada had been destroyed. 
(12) In Grenada, an environmental health haz-
ard has arisen as runoff, which contains pathogens