Thread: HOORAY FOR HILLARY-(she's sending right message to potential

HOORAY FOR HILLARY -- (she's sending the right message to potential Haitian boat people)

By Roy Beck, Friday, January 22, 2010, 5:45 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Sec. of State Hillary Clinton appears to be putting out the perfect signal to try to prevent thousands of Haitians from risking their lives in leaky boats to enter the U.S. illegally.

Ordinary and regular immigration laws will apply going forward, which means we are not going to be accepting into the US Haitians who are attempting to make it to our shores.

-- Sec. of State Hillary Clinton

This kind of message is especially important after the Obama Administration offered TPS (Temporary Protected Status) to hundreds of thousands of Haitians who already are in the U.S. illegally. Otherwise, Haitians back in their own earthquake-ravaged country could easily assume that they also could get work permits and legal status if they could just manage to illegally enter the U.S.

Flotillas of Haitian boat people in the past have drowned thousands of Haitians. It is of utmost humanitarian concern to discourage any Haitian from taking to a boat. Sec. Clinton couldn't have made it clearer about what will happen to any boat people:

They will be interdicted, they will be repatriated.

-- Sec. of State Hillary Clinton

Sec. Clinton stressed one of the core humanitarian principles of NumbersUSA that the 5 billion people living in impoverished countries must be helped to live securely and bloom where they were planted -- in their own countries. No resettlement program to wealthy countries could ever help more than a small fraction of the populations of these countries, so there is no use in expending money and energy into foreign resettlement that could be much better put to use in better settling people in their own countries.

To her credit, Clinton said the place for resettlement of Haitians is within their own country, stressing U.S. determination to help Haitians fleeing their capital for relatively safer areas in the countryside.

We also know that so many people are leaving Port-au-Prince into the surrounding countryside. We're trying to get more aid out there, more shelter, food, medicine, certainly water. People feel safer in the countryside and we want to support them.

-- Sec. of State Hillary Clinton

Clinton's message to the Haitian people was most welcome after rumors early this week from inside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that contingency plans were underway for diverting boat people to Gitmo in Cuba to be processed for entry into the U.S. We don't know if our inside sources were just badly interpreting what they were hearing or if this is a case of pragmatic heads winning out in an internal debate.

The issuance of 18-month work permits to hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitians is putting a bigger strain on the unemployment crisis where they are congregated.

The Florida legislature's chief economist Amy Baker warned that the illegal Haitians who do not already hold a job will find it very difficult to find one now in a state economy with an 11.5% unemployment rate, a 35-year high. Obviously, every illegal Haitian who finds a job will be keeping an American worker unemployed.

I have been quoted fairly widely in the media as saying that the Obama Administration made the right decision to suspend all deportation of illegal aliens back to Haiti at this time. It would make no sense to send anybody into that chaos and anarchy unless they were part of a rescue and aid effort.

However, I have not been pleased in the granting of the TPS status. My main objection is that Pres. Clinton and Pres. Bush -- and now Pres. Obama -- have repeatedly shown that they lack the will to ever end Temporary Protected Status. Once the status is given, it gets renewed over and over again, long after the original reason for it has passed. Unless we get a different kind of President than the last three, the TPS issuance this week is a de facto amnesty for the illegal aliens who will be allowed to live and work here the rest of their lives.

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I read some stories about Australia taking a similar stand against boat people from elsewhere. The other nations think that they can empty out their citizens, especially the poor and unskilled, and leave them to the United States. Talk about unrest within a nation with out of control immigration, and people not coming to be Americans, but to take from Americans.

Psalm 91

It is just funny how they are willing to interdict and repatriate Haitians who are attempting to enter illegally, but they are not willing to repatriate the Haitians who are already here illegally. I don't see a distinction.

Originally Posted by ICEstorm

It is just funny how they are willing to interdict and repatriate Haitians who are attempting to enter illegally, but they are not willing to repatriate the Haitians who are already here illegally. I don't see a distinction.

It's funny how this is only directed at the Haitians and not the Mexicans & Latin Americans who attempt to enter illegally.

miguelina wrote:
"It's funny how this is only directed at the Haitians and not the Mexicans & Latin Americans who attempt to enter illegally."

Not to mention the Cubans (also natives of the Caribbean), who have succeeded in obtaining yet another set of special rules which apply only to them!

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

The other nations think that they can empty out their citizens, especially the poor and unskilled, and leave them to the United States.

Georgia, the problem is that those other nations know that they can dump their problems on us.

IMO we need a fundamental principle for the formation of public policy. I suggest, "Americans and the quality of American life first in this magnificent country."

Originally Posted by ICEstorm

It is just funny how they are willing to interdict and repatriate Haitians who are attempting to enter illegally, but they are not willing to repatriate the Haitians who are already here illegally. I don't see a distinction.

Good for Hillary!! Yeah, that was Odumbo, he and that stupid Janet Napolitano are in charge of those already here, not Hillary. It's a damn shame the Democrats didn't nominate Hillary, after all, she was the smarter, better, more experienced candidate who got the most votes in the Democratic primary. The DNC deserves all the epic fail they are experiencing by nominating and electing Obama over Hillary. Unfortunately, the American People don't. Hillary would be terminating every free trade treason agreement we have at this very moment. I think she'd even go for the FairTax, after all, Hillary was raised in a manufacturing family as a Republican, you know.

Hillary should be President right now. She was cheated out of it by her own chauvinist Democrat National Committee. Pelosi and Boxer were so jealous they wouldn't allow her to become President and bemore powerful than they are. At least, that's my theory.

Anyone got a better theory as to why the Democrats refused to nominate the candidate who got the most votes in their primary elections, had the most experience and was the most prepared to serve our country over her empty suit Democrat opponent?

Originally Posted by vistalad

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

The other nations think that they can empty out their citizens, especially the poor and unskilled, and leave them to the United States.

Georgia, the problem is those other nations know that they can dump their problems on us.

IMO we need a fundamental principle for the formation of public policy. I suggest, "Americans and the quality of American life first in this magnificent country."

Absolutely, vistalad! In fact, that IS the legal standard of our immigration policy. Unfortunately, we have a bunch of politicians who ignore our laws and do what they want to please their foreign lobbyists and PayPals. Kick as many as we can to the curb in 2010.

Originally Posted by miguelina

Originally Posted by ICEstorm

It is just funny how they are willing to interdict and repatriate Haitians who are attempting to enter illegally, but they are not willing to repatriate the Haitians who are already here illegally. I don't see a distinction.

It's funny how this is only directed at the Haitians and not the Mexicans & Latin Americans who attempt to enter illegally.

Funny, in a weird way, but tragic in the real sense that our government refuses to enforce immigration law and deport every illegal alien in our country.

Originally Posted by Judy

Yeah, that was Odumbo, he and that stupid Janet Napolitano are in charge of those already here, not Hillary. It's a damn shame the Democrats didn't nominate Hillary, after all, she was the smarter, better, more experienced candidate who got the most votes in the Democratic primary.

I didn't pay much attention to the early part of the nomination process, because when Hillary declared, I assumed that she'd be our next president. The first time I did see 'Bama, I thought that he was just an annoying clown and that the media would be all over him. Never happened. Weeks later it was apparent that most of the media had adopted 'Bama as their candidate. Nothing but How presidential he looks. I wonder if the DNC was not among those whose were enamored of this clown.