Thread: Anger over US deporting immigrants to Haiti

Anger over US deporting immigrants to Haiti

By Andres Schipani in Fort Lauderdale

Published: February 8 2011 17:38
Last updated: February 8 2011 17:38

Last week, Claudine Magloire received bad news from Port-au-Prince: her fiancé Wildrick Guerrier had died of cholera after, she claims, spending eight days in a dirty, crowded cell with no water and no food. Yet she does not blame the Haitian authorities for his death. She blames the US government: Mr Guerrier was a legal resident of Florida with neither family nor property left in Haiti.

“The US government knows what the situation in Haiti is and they sent him back anyway. It was like a death sentence, they are fully responsible for his death,â€

He must have been a criminal in Haiti too to be incarcerated upon his return. Do the crime, do the time. Consider the conditions before you become a criminal.

Dixie

Last week, Claudine Magloire received bad news from Port-au-Prince: her fiancé Wildrick Guerrier had died of cholera after, she claims, spending eight days in a dirty, crowded cell with no water and no food. Yet she does not blame the Haitian authorities for his death. She blames the US government: Mr Guerrier was a legal resident of Florida with neither family nor property left in Haiti.

I thought you got cholera from infected drinking water. How did he get cholera if they gave him no food or water?