Our government hasn’t come to their aid because they’re the type of people our Dear Leader loves to hate: middle class white Christians trying to do something on the basis of their faith and without government assistance. He’d be happy to see them hanged in the town square.
So would Haiti, which is doing this to cover up its massive misuse of relief funds. Heck, even the US military couldn’t get paperwork to drop emergency supplies for the first few days, and they went ahead and did it anyway.
The Kansas City Star had an article about the missionary from Kansas and it was reported that the group was asked to pay $300/head to cross. The group refused to pay and were then arrested.
http://www.kansascity.com/703/story/1728522.html