As we have noted here, there are plenty of good places to send charity to help the Haitian earthquake victims. However, the article below from http://www.sweetness-light.com/ shows the possibilty that many Haitians may end up fleeing to the United States.
An interesting book which showed a similar result is called Camp of the Saints which you can get from Amazon by clicking here or your library here. The book says to "suppose a million starving people from the Ganges actually took Western rhetoric of compassion, explotiation, etc., to heart, and comandeered, en masse, shipping, with the intention of moving to the shores of France? (Raspail, of course, is French.) Would anyone stop them?"
DHS/DOD Tell Haitians Not To Flee To US
From an obviously outraged New York Times:
Homeless Haitians Told Not to Flee to U.S.
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
MIAMI — America has a message for the millions of Haitians left homeless and destitute by last week’s earthquake: Do not try to come to the United States.
Every day, a United States Air Force cargo plane specially equipped with radio transmitters flies for five hours over the devastated country, broadcasting news and a recorded message from Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s ambassador in Washington.
“Listen, don’t rush on boats to leave the country,” Mr. Joseph says in Creole, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon. “If you do that, we’ll all have even worse problems. Because, I’ll be honest with you: If you think you will reach the U.S. and all the doors will be wide open to you, that’s not at all the case. And they will intercept you right on the water and send you back home where you came from.”
Homeland Security and Defense Department officials say they are taking a hard line to avert a mass exodus from the island that could lead to deaths at sea or a refugee crisis in South Florida. Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is about 700 miles from Miami.
MIAMI — America has a message for the millions of Haitians left homeless and destitute by last week’s earthquake: Do not try to come to the United States.
Every day, a United States Air Force cargo plane specially equipped with radio transmitters flies for five hours over the devastated country, broadcasting news and a recorded message from Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s ambassador in Washington.
“Listen, don’t rush on boats to leave the country,” Mr. Joseph says in Creole, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon. “If you do that, we’ll all have even worse problems. Because, I’ll be honest with you: If you think you will reach the U.S. and all the doors will be wide open to you, that’s not at all the case. And they will intercept you right on the water and send you back home where you came from.”
Homeland Security and Defense Department officials say they are taking a hard line to avert a mass exodus from the island that could lead to deaths at sea or a refugee crisis in South Florida. Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is about 700 miles from Miami.
312,000 illegal aliens from El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras have been allowed to stay ‘temporarily’ in the US after Hurricane Mitch, which occurred more than ten years ago.
And, as we have previously noted, last Friday Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano granted similar ‘temporary protected status’ to 200,000 Haitians who are currently residing in the US.
And, as we have previously noted, last Friday Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano granted similar ‘temporary protected status’ to 200,000 Haitians who are currently residing in the US.
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