President Joe Biden’s U.S. Coast Guard has seized a boatload of Haitian migrants and reintegrated them into society without triggering an avalanche of asylum claims, NBC News reported on March 15.
“The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted 65 Haitians attempting to flee Haiti by boat and returned them to Haiti.” Said NBC reported, citing a statement from the agency.
The policy comes at a time when many polls show growing public opposition to his policies to import poor workers and renters, with pro-immigration Biden’s lawmakers secretly pushing the issue. This suggests that the United States wants to avoid causing a large-scale exodus of asylum-seeking migrants.
The maritime blockade prevents migrants from reaching the mainland United States, where they can apply for asylum. If they are allowed to enter the U.S. mainland to apply for asylum, their success would ensure even more immigration, and Biden campaign lawmakers may decide to detain large numbers of Black Haitians. , will be forced to either release them into American communities during an election year.
Haitian migrants cross the river from Colombia across the Darien Gorge into Panama, aiming to reach the United States, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
The boat interception also suggests that Biden’s aides have rejected proposals to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay for “processing.”
On Wednesday, CNN reported that White House officials were debating whether to process Haitian immigrants using the base as a gateway for Haitians to enter the United States. “The Biden administration is considering using Guantanamo Bay to process Haitian migrants in the event of a mass exodus of Haitian migrants. Deteriorating domestic situationaccording to U.S. officials,” CNN report on wednesday.
So far, the White House has downplayed media reports about the Haitian migrant threat and maritime disturbances, likely while welcoming millions of southern migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. , likely because they wanted to minimize the embarrassment of blocking black Haitians from entering the country.
Protesters burn tires during a demonstration following Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s resignation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 12, 2024. (CLARENS SIFFROY/AFP via Getty)
Biden’s lawmakers also don’t want to create problems for their allies in the business-backed pro-immigration lobby. For example, NBC reported that the boat interception was condemned by the Haiti Bridge Alliance, an advocacy group backed by Mark Zuckerberg’s investor lobby FWD.us.
“There is a particular level of disrespect when it comes to Haitian asylum seekers,” said Guerine Joseph, human rights activist and co-founder of the Haiti Bridge Alliance. “first [U.S.] This act is not about “how do we protect people?” It’s, ‘How do we stop them and how do we prevent them from reaching our shores?’ ”
More importantly, Zuckerberg’s group remains silent on the idea of leaving Haiti. to call For granting temporary amnesty (called Temporary Protected Status) to large numbers of immigrants from Central American countries.
Overall, Biden’s senators strongly support large-scale Haitian immigration into American communities, housing, jobs, and workplaces.
Biden has already used a variety of methods to help 400,000 Haitians settle in the United States, along with about 7 million other southern immigrants.
Mostly Haitian migrants prepare to board a bus from a shelter to a U.S. port of entry to begin the legal paperwork process in Reynosa, Mexico’s Tamaulipas state, on the border with McAllen, Texas, on May 19, 2022. . (PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty) Image)
Many of Biden’s Haitian immigrants are middle-class citizens who could restore some measure of civil order and democracy to their poor, corrupt country. But these relatively skilled people and potential leaders are being poached by American companies eager to increase American profits by employing cheap immigrant labor.
Gary Pierre Pierre, a Haitian-born American journalist, said in a March 15 article for CNN: I have written:
Just a half-dozen wealthy families control most of Haiti’s major industries, primarily through corrupt monopolies, and are a large part of the country’s woes. Elites control virtually every aspect of Haiti’s economy.they are essentially Don’t pay taxes. While much of the aid that has poured into Haiti over the years, including for reconstruction after the devastating 2010 earthquake, has benefited the upper class, most of the remaining people on the divided island are living in extreme poverty. continues to live inside. Meanwhile, Haiti’s political and business elites are involved in much of the country’s drug trafficking, which has long been an important source of income for them. In fact, experts say Haiti may be connected to the footprint of most drugs entering the United States.
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Haiti needs help to fight corruption and ease the stranglehold placed on its economy by the country’s oligarchic rulers. Efforts must be made to strengthen governance and develop and train potential leaders from the bottom up, as a means of strengthening the bond between governments and the people they govern. This is the best way to ensure that Haiti is never again ruled by the powerful and thieves.
Mr. Biden’s immigration policy is largely being led by Homeland Defense Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Mr. Mayorkas is a Cuban-born immigrant advocate who is willing to take a very tough stance on immigration at the request of Mr. Biden’s top officials. For example, starting in 2021, he became: flied More than 20,000 Haitian immigrants have returned to the impoverished country.
Mr. Mayorkas is motivated to further emigrate because of his immigrant parents, his sympathy for immigrants, his support for “equality” between Americans and foreigners, and his willingness to put his own priorities above the law. I have repeatedly stated that I support it.
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