The 12 million people who live in Haiti are reportedly going through a rough patch. 100 percent of them should be entitled to asylum in the U.S. due to a reasonable fear of violence, yet the U.S. won’t simply run around-the-clock evacuation flights and ships. We insist that they somehow find their way to the U.S. border before they can claim the asylum to which they are entitled (see also Are we in Year 14 of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants? from a year ago). I can’t figure out how it is moral to make asylum contingent on being young, healthy, and wealthy enough to undertake an arduous journey. If it is a human right then all Haitians should get it. If it is not a human right then why does any Haitian get it?
Back in 2018, the righteous said that Haiti was an example of greatness (see below). Maybe not as great as Gaza under Hamas rule, but still pretty great. Yet none of them advocated revoking the temporary protected status for Haitians who were purportedly “temporarily” in the U.S. Haiti was great, in other words, “great” but not so great that anyone could be safe who traveled back to Haiti.
Here’s another conundrum… we are informed that immigrants, especially the undocumented, are entirely peaceful. Yet “security guards at [New York City] migrant shelters are being paid upwards of $117 an hour” (New York Post). Why are security guards needed if there are no criminal migrants? They’re protecting the peaceful migrants from the unpeaceful native-born Americans from which our criminal population arises?
Is there a point at which the challenges faced by 12 million people in Haiti could actually become worthy of United Nations attention (currently 99% focused on the 2.3 million Gazans who remain alive after the “genocide” perpetrated by Israel against 2.3 million Gazans)?
Related:
- Labadee port guide (the authentic Haiti, unlike the parts where most tourists go)
- Personal Haitian Relief Operation (flying in tents after the earthquake; see below)
- Proud moment in my flying career (the ICAO flight plan form)
Also…
You have nailed it.
The logical disconnect regarding immigration policy promoted by the current administration, and many past administrations of both stripes is mind-boggling. But since when has boggling the minds of others been considered something to avoid. Recent trends seem to claim it as a virtue, e.g., promoting medical intervention to aid gender transition in children.
How are things in mostly peaceful Haiti? Bad.
If it is not a human right then why does any Haitian get it? It is a human right.
Why are security guards needed if there are no criminal migrants? To protect against angry natives.
They’re protecting the peaceful migrants from the unpeaceful native-born Americans from which our criminal population arises? Yes.
Is there a point at which the challenges faced by 12 million people in Haiti could actually become worthy of United Nations attention (currently 99% focused on the 2.3 million Gazans who remain alive after the “genocide” perpetrated by Israel against 2.3 million Gazans)? No.
Haiti is an interesting example of what happens when all of the honest, educated, productive, ambitious people leave a society. The US basically offered to allow anybody in Haiti to immigrate, and everybody with their shit together did so. What’s left are the dirt poor, the lazy deadbeats, and the crooks. Should we be surprised if the country degenerates completely? What else could possibly happen?
Well, okay, they are mostly peaceful.