'We don't know how we're going to go home. Are we going to get back?' Bahamians displaced by Dorian seek solace, community in South Florida.
Burton said her stepdaughter had “lost her entire family” — including her husband and three children — in the storm. Burton’s godchild was among those who died. Her stepdaughter was badly injured and remains in an intensive care unit in the Bahamian city of Nassau.Last week, the Burtons were among some 1,400 Bahamians who boarded the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line’s Grand Celebration ship in Freeport, bound for West Palm Beach.
Burton said her family arrived around 9:30 a.m., but did not board the ship until the evening. While the ship's crew tried to tend to those waiting, the heat was stifling. “Can you imagine? Everything is down. Nobody’s really in office at that point so people were getting frantic,” Burton said.displaced by the hurricane, an official told NBC News on Wednesday. The status would have allowed Bahamians to work and live in the U.S. until it is deemed safe to return home. The same status is currently granted to over 300,000 people living in the U.S. from 10 countries, including the victims of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake.
The Rev. Nathaniel Robinson, the pastor at another Coconut Grove church assisting relief efforts, said he believed “our country needs to open up our doors” to those displaced by the hurricane.“We need to provide aid and care,” he said from Greater St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church. “If you lose everything, how can you prove anything? You don’t have the paperwork, you don’t have visas.”
“It was really just waiting and hoping to hear from them,” said Gibson, 43, from Christ Episcopal Church.
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