ICHEOKU says suddenly the Joe Biden's administration has woken up from its slumber on the Southern border immigration crisis. It has decided to carry out its immigration responsibility with a ratcheted up deportation exercise; primarily targeted at Haitians, who merely followed the examples of Cubans, Mexicans and other light skinned South Americans and made it into America. Now, the government is sending hundreds of border agents to the southern border in Del Rio and fortifying the border defenses to ensure that these black Haitians don't enter into the country and that those who have already entered, are quickly deported back to Port-au-Prince, using as many charter flights as they could possibly find to effectively accomplish the task. What's the rush to send back these black Haitians to the country from where they are escaping in search of a better life in America; or are Afghanis the only people who deserve a better life?
Entry point Del Rio is now the main and to some extent, the only focal point and staging ground of illegal immigration crisis hyperventilation on nightly news and newspapers editorials. This is possibly because the color of the immigrants streaming across the Rio Grande river through Dell Rio into America is not the right skin color; they are black. But throughout last year and continuing for most part of this year when hundreds of thousands of light skinned Mexicans and other Southern Americans immigrants were "invading" the Southern border through El Paso, despite some media mention, the government looked the other way and when they looked, it was only to provide them with humanitarian assistance, busing them into American cities for rehabilitation and resettlement.
But with those black skinned Haitians arriving through Del Rio, Americans don't want them in their country because they are too dark for the country, the reason the quick reaction and order to get them deported back to Haiti. Otherwise, how else does anyone explain the double standards in treatment of these two different immigrant groups from the two sides of the southern border, Del Rio and El Paso? What is going on with respect to the bias immigration enforcements typifies the general treatment which is meted to black people in America, where black lives don't truly matter nor really counts. How can anybody rationalize or meaningfully argue that the two treatments of the Haitian immigrants at Del Rio and those Mexicans and Southern Americans immigrants through El Paso, meets fairness?
It is not only not fair, but it is cruel; as Haitians need more help than even those Afghanis being brought into America in planeloads. Haiti is suffering untold economic hardship from years of deprivation, natural disasters and political turmoils, some of which were created through endless Washington DC's interference in their internal domestic affairs matter. Their president was recently assassinated and a desperate people are seeking shelter in America but are being denied it. Where is the humanity in America which they preach overseas and sometime go to wars to emphasis it, if already arrived Haitians are being removed and forcefully sent back to the same despondency where they escaped from. Cubans who manages to set their feet on American soil are allowed to stay, but not Haitians, why?
Must it only be only when America goes to war in another country and is later forced to pull out, like in Vietnam and Afghanistan, that the citizens of such country deserve to be airlifted and boat-loaded into America. Haiti is our neighbor and within the same geo-political influence of America and deserves some cordial and most favored status immigration treatment more than those Afghanis from thousands of miles away in South Central Asia being brought in planeloads. Must Haiti first become a terrorist hotbed or an enemy of America by joining forces with China and Russia, before America can begin to seriously take their needs and problems as America's responsibility. There is a lot of empty spaces in the heartland and these Haitians can be easily bused over there and encouraged to rebuild their lives back better there.
Even the country Haiti itself deserves a sort of Marshal Plan to help rebuild and reposition it in order to discourage and dissuade these migrations. But they are black and blacks don't usually count nor matter in America's foreign policy decisions. An issue which is even more disheartening because Joe Biden's immigration tsar or tsarina, Kamala Harris, is herself a black Indian-Jamaican, yet black immigrants from Haiti are being summarily deported back to Haiti without even extending to them the same accommodations granted to their Mexican and Southern American immigrants from across the El Paso Southern border. It was not a crisis nor rose to the level demanding immediate intervention when only light skinned immigrants were crossing the southern border, but suddenly became such once dark skinned Haitians joined the exodus. It is sad.
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