Here’s the “policy:’
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Here’s the reality:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/US-nears-plan-for-widescale-expulsions-of-Haitian-16469378.php
Haitians on Texas border undeterred by US plan to expel them
JUAN A. LOZANO, ERIC GAY and ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press
Updated: Sep. 18, 2021 10 p.m.
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48A dust storm moves across the area as Haitian migrants use a dam to cross into and from the United States from Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. The U.S. plans to speed up its efforts to expel Haitian migrants on flights to their Caribbean homeland, officials said Saturday as agents poured into a Texas border city where thousands of Haitians have gathered after suddenly crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.Eric Gay/APShow More
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48Haitian migrants use a dam to cross into and from the United States from Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. The U.S. plans to speed up its efforts to expel Haitian migrants on flights to their Caribbean homeland, officials said Saturday as agents poured into a Texas border city where thousands of Haitians have gathered after suddenly crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.Eric Gay/APShow More
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Haitian migrants seeking to escape poverty, hunger and a feeling of hopelessness in their home country said they will not be deterred by U.S. plans to speedily send them back, as thousands of people remained encamped on the Texas border Saturday after crossing from Mexico.
Scores of people waded back and forth across the Rio Grande on Saturday afternoon, re-entering Mexico to purchase water, food and diapers in Ciudad Acuña before returning to the Texas encampment under and near a bridge in the border city of Del Rio.
Junior Jean, a 32-year-old man from Haiti, watched as people cautiously carried cases of water or bags of food through the knee-high river water. Jean said he lived on the streets in Chile the past four years, resigned to searching for food in garbage cans.
“We are all looking for a better life,” he said.
The Department of Homeland Security said Saturday that it moved about 2,000 of the migrants from the camp to other locations Friday for processing and possible removal from the U.S. Its statement also said it would have 400 agents and officers in the area by Monday morning and would send more if necessary.
The announcement marked a swift response to the sudden arrival of Haitians in Del Rio, a Texas city of about 35,000 people roughly 145 miles (230 kilometers) west of San Antonio. It sits on a relatively remote stretch of border that lacks capacity to hold and process such large numbers of people.
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Not surprisingly, Haiti wants no part of the Biden Administration’s scofflaw nonsense:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/world/americas/us-haitian-deportation.html
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As one of my esteemed colleagues summed up the Biden Administration’s latest attack on the rule of law and humanity: “Not a word about asylum, withholding, CAT, humanitarian parole.…”
The Biden Administration has thrown down the gauntlet! Progressive human rights experts had better get out the big litigation guns! Because Biden has basically ripped up “sign-on letters of outrage and concern” and thrown the pieces to the wind. He has delivered a Washington Monument sized “big middle finger” 🖕 to human rights advocates and Black supporters of Haitian refugees! What, if anything, will they do about it!
Whatever happened to our first Black Veep, Kamala Harris? Once, she was a strong voice for an end to racism and fair, humane treatment of asylum applicants, regardless of race. Now, she seems to have disappeared from the racial justice playing field!
🇺🇸Due Process Forever!
PWS
09-20-21