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A devastating indictment of the incompetence of Trump's DHS action on Haiti
Candidate Donald Trump pledged to Haitian-American voters here that he’d be their “greatest champion.” But the Associated Press reports the Trump Administration is fishing for criminals among Haitian immigrants – specifically the 50,000 Haitians living in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.
Administration critics say President Trump’s intent is to prove those Haitians are just like the Mexican “rapists and drug traffickers” he warned us about during his xenophobic campaign last year. Then, they say, he can rationalize terminating TPS for Haitians when it expires July 22 – ending their welcome by sending them home as his loyalists wave red-white-and-blue.
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Astonishingly, Kovarik is essentially instructing DHS employees to do what any 8th-grade geography student resorts to at 11 o’clock the night before a paper is due: Google Haiti and slap some supporting information together.
That stands in disturbing contrast to an eight-page report U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, part of DHS, issued on Haiti last December, a month before Trump took office. Using on-the-ground assessments from federal agencies like USAID, it detailed why Haiti remains a hot mess that probably still isn’t equipped to take back 50,000 people in one fell swoop.
Administration critics say President Trump’s intent is to prove those Haitians are just like the Mexican “rapists and drug traffickers” he warned us about during his xenophobic campaign last year. Then, they say, he can rationalize terminating TPS for Haitians when it expires July 22 – ending their welcome by sending them home as his loyalists wave red-white-and-blue.
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Astonishingly, Kovarik is essentially instructing DHS employees to do what any 8th-grade geography student resorts to at 11 o’clock the night before a paper is due: Google Haiti and slap some supporting information together.
That stands in disturbing contrast to an eight-page report U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, part of DHS, issued on Haiti last December, a month before Trump took office. Using on-the-ground assessments from federal agencies like USAID, it detailed why Haiti remains a hot mess that probably still isn’t equipped to take back 50,000 people in one fell swoop.
http://wlrn.org/post/trumps-haitian-tps-decision-deserves-more-thought-google-searches
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The article shows how disingenuous the Trump administration has been on this issue. This is just another in their racist, anti immigrant, and anti refugees they are -- and how they are absolutely ignoring the legislation passed on this.
