U.S. Lets Illegal Haitians Stay

WSJ ^ | JANUARY 16, 2010 | JOEL MILLMAN

[dfwgator]

I would go to Little Haiti in Miami and gather all of the entrepreneurs who have successfully built businesses there and other professional Haitians, and send them a simple message.

“You have earned much here, now it is time to give back and help rebuild your country. Nobody else is going to do it for you.”

[dennisw]

Considering the conditions in Haiti currently and the fact that the amnesty is only temporary, I will try to refrain from sarcastic comments about amnesties for illegal emigrant law breakers.

There is no such thing as a temporary amnesty. No one ever gets booted out once they get this temporary protected status to live here. Then they start having children and anchor babies

I've seen this scam repeated over and over again with Guatemalans Hondurans and people from all over the Caribbean

No one ever goes home! Get it? Don't be naive!

[dennisw]

If I were a Haitian, I would move heaven and earth for the opportunity to live in nothing more than abject poverty here in the United States.

Sounds like you want to welcome the entire island

[Spike Knotts]

Why limit it to one island? Most of the World lives in poverty. Lets bring them all in. And then, when my country is gone, and my children/grandchildren are disenfranchised...I’m sure they’ll do better here than they did where they came from. Because ones success is all about geography.

[dennisw]

Why limit it to one island? Most of the World lives in poverty. Lets bring them all in. And then, when my country is gone, and my children/grandchildren are disenfranchised...I’m sure they’ll do better here than they did where they came from. Because ones success is all about geography.

Every few years Bangladesh has a cyclone that kills tens of millions 
Why don't we bring it half of Bangladesh next time?

By pure chance Haiti is 500 miles from Florida but now everyone will act as though they are part of America
Sure it sucks there.....always has But there are even worse parts of the world

[P-Marlowe]

Sounds like you want to welcome the entire island

I guess my bleeding heart is hemorrhaging, eh?

Have you seen the human misery that has befallen these poor souls? YES I would want them all to come here... at least all the widows and orphans.

While the misery in Darfur is a half a globe away and there isn't much we can do about it, the misery in Haiti is right on our doorstep. If the estimates of the death and destruction is as bad as some have said, this is the worst disaster in the history of this hemisphere.

If your heart is not bleeding now, then you don't have a heart.

[dennisw]

You live in a sovereign nation with defensible borders named “The United States of America”. Haiti or no Haiti that’s the deal. I am not a citizen of the world but I am a citizen of America and only America

Help the Haitians all ya want where they live with a few billion in food and aid but I don’t believe in bringing in millions to America. You may hallucinate otherwise. You may try your “compassion bully” act on me too. Adios

[orinoco]

Napolitano says the illegal Haitians can stay for "humanitarian reasons among other things".
I support humanitarian help. Let me guess at one of the "other things". If our officials enforce our immigrations laws and attempt to send them back to a devastated country what would they do? Answer.....they will become so enraged that they could resort to violence. This is another problem that we in America have to endure by not protecting our borders.

[Clemenza]

There has been a steady flow of Haitians into DR for over a hundred years. This is why so many in DR have French last names, especially in the barrios. Interestingly enough, the Dominican leader who was most brutal towards Haitian migrants (the massacres on the border became so commonplace that Kennedy gave the OK to have him deposed) was Trujillo, who, ironically had a Haitian grandmother.

BTW: Don't ever fall for the classic Dominican line that Doms are "not black like those Haitians." Most Dominicans look no different from black Americans, but are still more brown than Haitians (other than the mulatto elite).

[Clemenza]

Why don't we bring it half of Bangladesh next time?

Alot of them actually end up in Queens (or the UK), but those are the ones who can afford the expensive plane ticket to JFK or Heathrow.

[livius]

Yes, Dominicans and Haitians are almost equally black, although it seems to me that there is a somewhat larger number of average folk in the DR who are light-skinned (in Haiti, only the upper class seems to be light skinned).

I know that Haitian infiltration into DR has always been a problem. And it’s true that Dominicans definitely do not like Haitians!

[wagglebee]

I agree completely.