Pretty simple, really.
“Many of the Haitians currently at the border are believed to have been living in South America after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, but the toll of the pandemic on the region fueled migration to the US southern border,” CNN says (read story here).
The Biden administration’s response is “to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti to deter Haitians who are overwhelming Del Rio, Texas,” where 14,000 are camped under a border bridge.
What else could U.S. officials do?
Haiti is an overpopulated, desperately poor place. Its chief export is people. Our government has no obligation to take their population overflow. Our immigration laws don’t allow it.
As for the migrants beating on the gates at Del Rio, no one invited them to come here. They invited themselves. That’s not how our immigration system works. Our laws require turning them away. Moreover, if they’re allowed to enter, they’ll immediately become government wards, because they have no money, job prospects, or relatives willing to support them, and nowhere to go. That’s not a burden our citizens are willing to assume.
We don’t ignore Haiti’s problems. Our government works with U.N. agencies and private charities to provide disaster assistance and humanitarian relief (see details here). And, it seems, it’s also now providing free transportation home for those piling up on our border. Sure, we’re trying to get rid of them, but we’re not leaving them there to rot. That’s all anyone can reasonably ask of our country.
Related story: For a more detailed story, go here.
