Posted on 04/27/2010 9:55:39 PM PDT by Lorianne
In the dark of night recently, a Haitian named Wisly Bejean was walking on an isolated farming road just south of the Canadian border when his journey into the United States abruptly ended.
Mr. Bejean was picked up by U.S. border agents and detained. He is charged with trying to enter the United States illegally, and he is one of many.
Since the Jan. 12 earthquake laid waste to their homeland, more than 120 Haitians, some of them women and children, have been caught trying to cross into Vermont from Quebec. Eight were apprehended this weekend.
The willingness to risk deportation and even imprisonment is a measure of the determination of some Haitians to be reunited with family, Ms. Villefranche said. Without status in Canada, they faced no prospect of sponsoring their loved ones.
Nearly all the captured Haitians had tried to cross on foot at night through unguarded border areas southeast of Montreal. According to the U.S. Border Patrol, most lived in Montreal and were headed to large Haitian expatriate communities in Miami and New York, where many have family. Most had lived in the United States years ago, and fled to Canada after they were ordered deported back to Haiti.
Mr. Bejean was living in Florida and lost a bid to remain in the United States; in October, 2007, facing deportation, he entered Canada at Fort Erie, Ont., and applied for asylum. His recent attempt to re-enter the United States, where he reportedly has a fiancée, could cost him dearly. The U.S. Attorney’s office is criminally prosecuting more than 35 of the Haitians, including Mr. Bejean, who face up to two years in jail if found guilty of re-entering the country while facing an outstanding deportation order.
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To bad Mr. Bejean wasn't of the Mexican race nationality.
Jail and a one way ticket back
¡No habla Ingles!
“The U.S. Attorney’s office is criminally prosecuting more than 35 of the Haitians, including Mr. Bejean, who face up to two years in jail if found guilty of re-entering the country while facing an outstanding deportation order”
‘Guess there aren’t enough Hatians to represent a voting contingent to the democrats or the “latino” ILLEGALS would be rioting in the streets to “help” their ILLEGAL Hatian “brothers.
25 Haitians were caught by VERMONT STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT last month crossing into Vermont from Canada illegally, but no immigration protests here happened at all. NY and Vermont police, State Troopers have been picking up illegals from Mexico and other countries for years here `n handing them over to ICE but no fanfare- just quietly doin` their jobs.
If you want to use really loose and ambiguous language, Haitians are “Latino”. A Latino is any person that’s from any Romance language speaking culture and Haitian Creole is a Romance language.
Do you have a cite for that ... that it was Vermont state law enforcement who was picking them up?
I could use it. Thanks.
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