Posted on 12/10/2018 7:27:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the 1990s, William Barr, President Trump's pick for attorney general, oversaw a program that sent some 12,000 Haitian asylum seekers to Guantanamo Bay, effectively creating what one detractor called "the world's first HIV detention camp." After operating for about 18 months, the detention system was forcibly ended by a judge in 1993, but Barr defended the practice as recently as 2001.
At the time, Barr was serving as attorney general for President George H.W. Bush, and a military coup in Haiti had led to mass executions that targeted thousands of supporters of the overthrown leader. The bloodshed sent thousands of Haitians fleeing to Florida to seek asylum.
But soon the United States Coast Guard began intercepting the boats at sea and conducting preliminary screenings of the refugees on board. Those who didn't make it past the initial interview were immediately sent back to Haiti. When that practice was challenged in court, the Coast Guard quickly ran out of room to house the would-be migrants aboard ships. Federal immigration officials, wanting to avoid an influx of thousands of Haitian refugees in the U.S., instituted a policy of shuttling them to the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rather than the States.
A return to Haiti was a near certain death sentence for many of those who fled, said Ira Kurzban, an attorney and refugees' advocate who in 1991 fought against the program. The Haitian military would regularly patrol neighborhoods on the island, "literally pulling people out their homes to execute them in the streets," Kurzban said in a telephone interview with CBS News on Friday....
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Gitmo is actually more like a luxury resort hotel compared to what other countries do. I wouldn’t mind spending a week or so there.
CBS is a stain on history.
So what?
So he wanted to keep Americans safe. The horror.
When you read articles like this; whose source of opinion comes ONLY from far leftist, American hating, groups that support human trafficking, without even the slightest attempt to ask revealing questions, it shows how low journolism has become.
“according to a law paper published by Michael Ratner, the attorney who successfully fought against the HIV screening. Ratner died in 2016.”
Of AIDS?
Pretty “extreme” stuff for someone connected with the Bush crowd. Maybe we’ll like this guy after all.
Gitmo is actually more like a luxury resort hotel compared to what other countries do. I wouldn’t mind spending a week or so there.
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Exactly. It was paradise compared to going back to Haiti.
This is more liberal propaganda designed to hurt morale.
Why, O, Why? didn't this man release those thousands of HIV-infected into the general population of the United States?
The Haitians are such fine, upstanding people, who can be rightly proud of the nation they built - a nation unsullied by the stain of "White Privilege."
Regards,
Funny, during Bush’s funeral, the same commie media said that Bush was surrounded by the best of the best..now that Barr is being considered to be on Trump’s cabinet, all of a sudden now he is evil
They were just there until the Clintons finished building the hospital, with all the money they raised for Haiti.
Good, we can put the Central American invaders there.
I haven’t read up much on Barr, but this article makes me favorably disposed to him.
It’s better than the fake Haitian “refugees” being a stain on America. Just sayin’...
Sounds like the coup that ousted that communist Aristide in 1991.
Meanwhile Hillary sold the Haitians to traffickers, otherwise known as slavers.
Funny how they don't bring that up.
Yikes! Even at 85 that gives me a woody...
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