Los Angeles Massage Parlors: US official offers aid to Haitians in LA
… We invited ourselves here to see if there is anything we can do to provide assistance,” Arellano said. “It is beyond anybody’s control what happened.”
U.S. officials expect as many as 200,000 Haitians to be eligible for temporary protected status, most of them in Miami and New York. The Haitian community in Los Angeles numbers about 4,000, according to Guillaume, who came to Los Angeles from Haiti via Canada to start his church a decade ago.
The church, situated near auto repair shops, a beauty salon and a massage parlor near West Adams Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, features the flags of Haiti and the United States. In a trilingual service of English, French and Haitian Creole, congregants shook tambourines and sang songs punctuated with upbeat Caribbean rhythms one moment, then fell to their knees in silent prayer another.
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