Human rights groups held a news conference Thursday to discuss the report, Aftershocks: The Human Impact of U.S. Deportations to Post-Earthquake Haiti, which documents the experiences people with criminal records have after being deported to post-earthquake Haiti. The report also makes recommendations to the U.S., Haiti and international communities.

The January 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed up to 300,000 people and left one in seven homeless, according to the report. Damages totaled $9 billion, more than Haiti’s 2009 GDP of $7 billion, the report says. Haitians who were in the U.S. were given Temporary Protected Status, meaning they could stay in the country until conditions improved in their country. The status has been renewed through 2016.

But those with one felony or two misdemeanors lose that protection.

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The nearly 70-page report was put together by the Human Rights and Immigration Clinics at the University of Miami School of Law and the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago School of Law.

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