The illegal immigration issue has been a political football for as long as I can remember. Here’s a 2020 article from the University of Arizona, A Brief Legislative History of the Last 50 Years on the U.S.-Mexico Border, with short excerpts on illegal immigration policy in the US through both Democrat and Republican administrations. Somehow this problem, despite Americans’ support for secure borders, despite experts galore, despite taxpayer money galore, and despite political promises galore, never gets resolved. A cynical person might conclude that special interests profiting from the illegal immigration problem hold more power over politicians in Washington than the voters, who elect them. The majority of Americans consistently support securing our borders.
Even worse than our leaders in Washington not dealing with the illegal immigration problem, is American tax dollars are actually funding it. Here’s a Daily Caller article from 2023: EXCLUSIVE: Red Cross Packets Show Migrants Where To Cross The US Border, detailing how DHS funds the American Red Cross and many other non-profits, particularly religious charities, who provide shelter, food, medical care, etc. for illegal immigrants. These groups rake in millions upon millions in federal funding and are deeply invested in the illegal immigration “business.”
Haiti’s government collapsed again, which happens repeatedly. When Haitian internal chaos escalates, thousands upon thousands of Haitians usually flee and many head to the US. The news media is filled with reports of violent gangs running rampant in Haiti. Right-wing media reported on a Haitian gang with a leader named Barbeque, because he’s rumored to advocate cannibalism. Of course, that led to liberal media backlash. Here’s a NBC report from a couple days ago: Elon Musk and right-wing influencers use ‘cannibal’ claims to smear Haitian migrants amid crisis. This NBC news report insists that the right-wing media hyping cannibalism is baseless and meant to disparage Haitians as cannibals, but it includes this paragraph:
“The accusations of widespread cannibalism are based on what experts said was a likely intimidation tactic from select gang members: In some videos, the most prominent examples being at least two years old, alleged members of violent gangs in Haiti appear to bite into human flesh. Experts said these videos are likely part of propaganda campaigns designed to scare rivals and terrorize local Haitians rather than a reflection of common or normalized behavior. One former armed group went by the name “Cannibal Army.”
NBC referenced “experts” who say this was likely an intimidation tactic by gang members. I hope their experts are more reliable than the Biden administration experts, who assured us that all those Afghan refugees were being properly vetted.
So far, we’ve recently been warned by the FBI director about potential terrorists in the midst of the massive influx on illegals and that there are thousands of military-age male illegals from China, Iran, and other places flooding in and he doesn’t know their intentions or even how many of them got into the US. The prospect of a violent gang of cannibals invading our country somehow seems about par for the course with the Biden administration.
So, with the prospect of an increase in Haitian illegal immigrants heading to America, there are two political approaches so far. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida activated military and got legislation passed to deal with this impending crisis: Florida Deploys Officers, Fleet to Halt Potential Haitian Influx.
The Biden administration is concerned about “vetting” Haitians and considering expanding the use of Guantanamo Bay for processing Haitian migrants. Here’s a CNN article from a couple days ago: Biden administration discussing using Guantanamo Bay to process possible influx of Haitian migrants. This article has this line, “The Department of Homeland Security has been dusting off mass migration event plans, as they’ve done before with Haiti, including in 2022 as the number of Haitians interdicted at sea ticked up.”
One can hardly wait to see how the Biden administration, which has botched every crisis thus far, handles this one. Back in 2021 with the Afghanistan withdrawal and that effort at refugee evacuation, the Biden administration repeatedly assured us that all refugees were being carefully vetted. This assurance seemed hard to believe when reporters were showing the scenes of mobs of refugees and chaos at the airport in Kabul. The liberal media repeated the White House assurances about this careful vetting process, without question.
Here’s a August 2021 CNN piece, Here’s how Afghan refugees coming to the US are being vetted, describing this super-duper vetting process:
“National security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Monday that this vetting includes “biometric and biographic background checks” that must be cleared before Afghan evacuees can be brought to the US or relocated to another country. Biometric vetting often refers to voiceprints, iris scans, palm prints and facial photos.”
A year later, here’s a CBS news report, DHS officials lacked “critical data” when vetting Afghan evacuees, watchdog finds. The DHS Office of the Inspector General issued a 34 page report and concluded:
“U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not always have critical data to properly screen, vet, or inspect the evacuees,” the report by DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari said. “We determined some information used to vet evacuees through U.S. Government databases, such as name, date of birth, identification number, and travel document data, was inaccurate, incomplete, or missing.”
We went from 2021 WH assurances of biometric and biographic background checks to 2022 an IG investigation that reinforced that the chaos we were seeing from news reports was the reality.
How many times should we believe the Biden administration when they assure us they’re on top of a crisis situation? Should we feel confident that a DHS official is dusting off mass migration event plans? No one was fired or held accountable for that Afghanistan withdrawal debacle and the same crowd that bungled that are still in charge now. Are you confident they’re prepared for a potential Haitian migrant crisis?
At this point, considering the liberal brain rot and how many Americans have taken to the streets to champion Hamas terrorists, after they massacred over a thousand Israelis (mostly civilians), I would not be surprised if the next liberal cause is defending Haitian cannibal gangs. Truly, I can already imagine looney liberals protesting in the streets defending Haitian cannibal gangs and waving campfire roasting forks…
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