Posted on 01/29/2010 8:08:28 AM PST by Poundstone
THE UNITED STATES has reacted swiftly and generously to Haiti's calamity, both with a colossal charitable response from individuals, enterprises and organizations and with a substantial commitment of troops, money, medical help and high-level attention from the government. But the Obama administration can and should do more, and quickly, to ease the vast burden of relief and rebuilding and to channel cash to Haitian families in dire need.
Specifically -- and at a minimum -- it could accomplish those goals by allowing Haitians with relatives in the United States to join their families here as quickly as practicable. Instead, it has imposed what amounts to a freeze in issuing visas to Haitians, thereby keeping them bottled up in one of the world's most destitute and devastated places. This is counterproductive in the extreme and will only increase the risk of boat people heading toward American shores.
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We are broke as a nation as the economy will deter the idea of importing them. As a whole, we have way too many problems of our own.
United States of America: Dumping ground for all dysfunctional countries.
NO
How about they stay in Haiti, and we just issue every Haitian citizen an absentee ballot for each election for now on...
To be fair about it, the ballots to be given would be allocated by current in-state population, those more populous would have more of their ballots as handouts.
Don’t forget to read the fine-print part, where SEIU purpleshirts greet the grateful refugees at the dock and provide them with water bottles, Obama buttons, voter registration forms and absentee ballots.
It was the Mariel boatlift, named for the port of Mariel where the boats were docked. “Marielito” refers to a person (male) who came on the boatlift.
It was the Mariel boatlift, named for the port of Mariel where the boats were docked. “Marielito” refers to a person (male) who came on the boatlift.
If we allow those “with relatives in the United States” to come here they may just about empty Haiti of all its citizens.
This isn’t out of compassion, it is about social engineering!
Right now there are thousands of rapists, thieves and murderers terrorizing the women and children. They would, no doubt, be included. NO!
More voters for the Zero! Be it black, white, yellow or green. He’ll take them all, with a few animals on the side.
So we should bring them here? It's like moving welfare recipients into the suburbs. No good will come of it.
I think we should make a new poem for the base of the Statue of Liberty...something to rhyme with “only those who who can benefit our country need apply”. That, and investigations of those who applied to enter as future citizens, used to be the dictum for immigration until the Kennedy’s got their hands on it.
We would be better off taking Haiti as a protectorate and taking the int’l scorn for it, than turning our homeland into a refugee camp.
Who didn’t see this coming? LOL!
FMCDH(BITS)
Haiti is going to be a defacto US territory for the next decade. Those people will be fine; they can stay and help rebuild their country with the billions we are going to be sending.
Immigration policy should never be viewed as some kind of international welfare program. Immigration policy should always serve the interests of citizens. First, foremost, and last, immigration policy must serve the interest of Americans.
And the last thing Haiti needs is a brain drain of its best and brightest, and the last thing we need is a wave of Haitians joining the wave of Somalis we’ve just agreed to accept. The geniuses who organize these things never ask Americans for direction in these matters; they do what they want and you’ll bloody well like it.
If we let any Haitians in, it should be very limited.
I say send all those Somalis back and replace them with Haitians-—I’ll take a bit of voodoo over Sharia.
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