Where were Haiti's elite anti-gang police on October 3, when more than 88 Haitians were murdered by gangs in a rural town?
Hard to find except in New York, where former anti-gang cops work Low-wage Bidennomic jobs have increased as President Joe Biden's immigration chief has given them visas to fill jobs in President Joe Biden's economy.
U.S. Department of State's 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Haiti admitted:
Law enforcement agencies experienced a significant reduction in their losses. [9,000 person] Workers who served as police officers fled the country. Media reported that 3,000 police officers have left Haiti since 2022, with anecdotal evidence that the majority did so at the request of the U.S. government. [visa] Humanitarian parole program process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans [created by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas] As of January 2023, Haitians are also included.
of new york times explained The aftermath of the Mayorkas-led massacre in the town of Pon Zonde:
When, Ms. [Bertide] Horace, who was in the city of Saint-Marc, about 10 miles away, arrived four hours after sunrise with heavily armed police, and found bodies littering the town's streets.
“People were coming out of hiding and trying to escape,” she said in an interview. “There was complete panic,” she said, adding that the injured were walking around “looking for help.”
According to the United Nations, at least 88 people, including 10 gang members, were killed in the violence, which was carried out by a gang called the Gran Grifs.
DocumentedNY.com I spoke with four Haitian police officers. Live in New York in June 2024.
[Cosby] Jean Charles is a security guard at John F. Kennedy Airport. [Roodolphe] Nicholas briefly found work as a parking attendant in Manhattan for a month before his work permit expired. Miguel ChardevoinBernard C. Pierre, who runs a small logging business in Buffalo, and Bernard C. Pierre, a chef at the Barclays Center who prepares meals for the Brooklyn Nets. Pierre has also worked as a parking attendant in Manhattan and as an inventory clerk at the Dollar General Store.
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[Nicolas had] 20th graduating class of Haitian Police Force [in 207]also known as Orion. His comrades called him “Battalion” because he came second in the Haitian police academy. His excellent performance allowed him to choose the police force of his choice. While most would have chosen the anti-drug-trafficking unit, he ended up joining a specialized unit that maintains public order and deals with protests and civil unrest.
Former officers said they have seen how Haiti's elite protect gangs whenever police approach.
Like Chardavoin and Nicolas, Jean-Charles was fed up with a police force that he described as “disgusting to the bone''. He said he had witnessed far too much fraud where services aimed at benefiting the wealthiest people were concentrated. Like other colleagues, he told Documented that there is no real incentive for police or the Haitian government to solve the gangs and crisis.
The headline of the article was “Elite member of Haitian police as asylum seeker and parolee missing in New York.''
The four former police officers are just a few of the roughly 500,000 people extracted from Haiti by the U.S. immigration policy run by Mr. Mayorkas and his progressive colleagues. They granted “temporary protected status” to about 300,000 Haitians who crossed the border illegally and granted travel visas to another 214,000 through Mr. Mayorkas' parole program.
More recently, educated Haitian immigrants have been used throughout the country to manage the growing Haitian population. decreased productivityHaitian workers in cities such as Springfield, Ohio, Indiana, Washington, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania are facing lower wages and higher rents.
For example, former Haitian Coast Guard personnel Adopted to help bring the haitians Charleroi and its low-tech employers Fourth Street Foods:
Mr. Bernabe is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Haiti State University and has had an extensive career in public service, including the military, law enforcement, and education.
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Lianna Spada, executive director of the Mont Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce, headquartered in downtown Charleroi, spearheaded the search that led to Bernabe's hiring. The search committee sought a trusted partner to help capture the opportunities that a new wave of immigration presents within the Midmon Valley.
“We brought life to the community,” says Evensie Dozerma, a former Haitian police officer from Charleroi, Pennsylvania. said of washington post “We do no harm to anyone.”
Mr. Mayorkas' multi channel Extractive immigration policies aim to extract human resources from poor countries to expand consumption and fill jobs in the United States. Mr. Mayorkas also seeks to emulate Canada's Indian imports to provide employers in the consumer economy with a cheap, subordinate and disposable workforce.
In March 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris rejected Biden's offer to take a lead role on immigration policy. Since then, she has not publicly opposed Mayorkas' policies and is widely expected to continue them if elected president.
Unsurprisingly, these policies are extremely unpopular in the United States, in part because they would push the U.S. economy toward a low-tech future and force millions of Americans out of the workforce. It is from.
Many have pointed to the dire consequences of Mayorkas' colonialist-like policies in Haiti.
“This is a brain drain,” said Dr. Jean Hardouin-Louis Charles, executive director of the Haitian Medical Association. miami herald newspaper, that is added:
The departers left the sanatorium [Hospital] When the Grand Lavigne gang moved in, there were only half the employees. Haiti National University Hospital, The hospital, commonly referred to as a general hospital, had only one resident in pediatrics.
“Considering the situation in this country…[the Mayorkas parole program] He opened the door for them. But for this country, it has huge implications,” he said.
“We need 7,050 school benches, 971 chairs and 227 blackboards,” said Haussene, the education ministry's director for southeastern Haiti. “I have been the superintendent for three years and the Ministry of Education could not provide us with a bench and my previous superintendent could not get a bench because there was no security.”
Worse than the brain drain, Mr. Mayorkas' seductive escape hatch meant that Haiti's leaders, alumni, police, and citizens jointly risked their lives and property to save the nation's 11 million people. It also deprives us of the chance to rebuild a democratic society.
“Despair has reached such a dire level that the daughters and sons of this country can only see their future elsewhere,” said one Haitian government official. new york times reporter In March 2023.
Even the DocumentedNY.com article is written by another excerpted Haitian.
Ralph Thomassaint Joseph is Documented's Caribbean community correspondent. He studied law and sociology in Haiti and earned a master's degree in digital journalism from New York University.
Many reporters understand the chaos Mayorkas has caused in Haiti, but downplay the connection to immigration policies created by the U.S. establishment. For example, two reporters at the facility new york times noticed An article from May 2024 reads:
Police Chief Herbe said many police officers have been killed, resigned or simply quit their jobs. But a significant number have left Haiti under the U.S. humanitarian parole program for Haitian immigrants introduced last year by the Biden administration, he added.
Mayorkas has repeatedly explained that he supports further immigration because of his immigrant parents, his sympathy for immigrants, and his support for “equality” between Americans and foreigners. He even claims that Springfield “bloomed because of the infusion.” [up to 20,000] People from another country. ”
He also justified welcoming immigrants by saying his priorities come before the law, insisting that the “needs” of American businesses come first. Fee The impact on ordinary Americans, the impact on American children, and the reasonable objections of Americans.
But there are other explanations for his extractive policies.
The General Secretariat for Haiti of the Organization of American States, in which the United States plays a dominant role, proposed In August 2022, he argued that the international community should abandon any hope of stabilizing Haiti. Instead, the Secretariat said countries could treat Haiti as an unlimited source of uneducated migrant workers, consumers and renters.
Does the international community, the international financial institutions, the multilateral system, and the international financial community of donor countries want to industrialize Haiti enough to secure jobs for 9 million Haitians? Whether it is economically more beneficial to continue accepting Haitian immigrants [emphasis added] And how should host countries accommodate them to the extent possible within the economic conditions they can offer?
This policy option has not yet been publicly announced because it would abandon Haiti and its 11 million marginalized people to squalid conditions and violence.
