America Needs a Stable Haiti— Send in the Salvadorians!

By Alex C.

The Trump administration has announced it is going to revoke the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of 530,000 Haitians, Cubans, and Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. In a vacuum this is a wise decision, these immigrants mostly showed up without invitation, wandered across our border, and received a warm welcome from the now-past Biden administration. Americans did not invite these people into our country, and we elected a president to sent them home. Yet, Haiti is such a disaster-zone that without some real effort to stabilize the country Haitians will continue to make the dangerous journey to the United States and our neighboring countries. Even since Trump book office boats carrying dozens and even hundreds of Haitians have been intercepted off the coast of Florida. The Coast Guard clearly expects this to continue as they are reportedly ‘surging assets’ to Southern Florida in the wake of Trumps’ executive orders.

Haiti itself is spiraling deeper into chaos. Gangs control much of Port-au-Prince, the capital, and they continue to displace people. On March 19^th the United Nations issued another statement about gangs overrunning yet more of the capital and displacing more people. The Catholic Archbishop Max Leroy Mesidor has issued yet another call for the international community to help Haiti. To give you but a small glimpse of Haiti’s hell: sexual violence against children has increased 1,000%.

Our readers will surely know by now that Bukele is a leader with a near-90% approval rating and that he was able to crush gang violence in El Salvador, making it the safest country in the Western Hemisphere.

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