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TownhallDec 30, 2021
US Resumes Deportation of Haitian Migrants
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The Facts
The Biden administration resumed deportations of migrants from Haiti on Thursday, sending dozens of people back to their home country that has been grappling with surging gang violence.
The US Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a statement saying that it "will continue to enforce US laws and policy" throughout various regions where migrants are coming, adding that it will return noncitizens "who do not establish a legal basis to remain in the United States."
The Spin
Progressive narrative
Deporting Haitian asylum seekers back to a country that is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis is nothing short of a moral blithe on the Biden administration and the US as a whole. Instead of showing empathy to people fleeing a country that has been hijacked by gangs, the US is callously sending them back to a place where they face persecution and a humanitarian catastrophe. Human rights must come before politics, and the Biden administration must end all deportations to Haiti.
Conservative narrative
The Biden administration and left-wing nonprofits have been pushing a disastrous foreign policy agenda that has destabilized Haiti. Now the radical left is inviting thousands, if not millions, of illegal migrants into the US and other countries. The situation in Haiti is a tragedy that merits our sympathy, but the US cannot welcome an unending wave of Haitian migrants, especially when our Southern Border is being overrun by millions every year.