Why is the wonderful, democratic, U. S. of A. the “Land of Milk and Honey”?
Because it offers opportunities like no other country. People are free to believe whatever they want without the fear of their government punishing them.
Thousands of illegal refugees live in the United States. The government knows they are here and yet, the government doesn’t take a strong stand on this problem. Is the problem so rampant that the government just throws up its hands and says, “Oh, well, there’s no way to effectively control it”?
It upsets me to think that other illegal individuals who enter this country find asylum, for whatever reason, and the government can understand. Yet the Haitian refugees are being sent home.
Maybe they were too visible coming in on the ships. Maybe they should have taken their boats to a certain point and come into the United States on foot.
Why is it so difficult to understand that these people have fled from a political and economic demon which has suppressed their lives? For our government to say, that there are no political problem in Haiti is BS. How patronizing. There have been reports of men being tortured since they have been back in Haiti.
Marguerite E. Lathan, a Haitian now living in Beverly Hills, wrote a letter to the Los Angeles Times that read, “No other people have been treated as poorly as the Haitian refugees … The refugee who will return to Haiti will go back to her mountain village or her Port-au-Prince neighborhood, only to be hunted down and one day attacked by Tontons Macoutes; their sharp machete blades will chop her arms and legs, and she will be decapitated. Life is cheap in Haiti, especially if you are a supporter of democracy.”
And our government says they are not genuine political refugees?
How devastating to be prepared to leave your homeland, family and friends, for what might be forever, to a place where many people wished they lived, only to be forced back to hell! And when they return home, will it be to nothing because they sold everything they owned to get here?
It is completely inhumane for the Supreme Court to allow forced repatriation of these people. The court denied two petitions filed on behalf of the refugees. One asked that the forced return of the Haitians be suspended immediately, and the other sought a full review of the legal questions raised by the repatriation program.
I’m sure it is hard to prove that a person who has been forcibly repatriated by the United States and handed over to a representative of their country will be the target of repression, in a country where this kind of conduct is acceptable.
Even though there are difficulties, we know how these people are being treated and should do something about it.
For goodness sake, we had a war for a country we did not know about, and send aid to millions of people around the world. Yet our well seems to run dry when it comes to the refugees of Haiti. Why?
