Obama wants more Haitians in America
Posted on July 29, 2008
Voodoo immigration?
Last year, when Sen. Barack Obama was making the circuit of conventions for journalists of color, the question was whether the prospective candidate was black enough. This year, when he appeared before the UNITY: Journalists of Color convention in Chicago, the presumptive Democratic nominee joked, “I’m too black.”
Obama appeared Sunday at the close of the convention in a session aired live on CNN to talk about his observations from his trip to the Middle East and Europe, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. economy and questions from the journalists about faith, affirmative action, immigration and apologies for slavery and to Native Americans.
Asked whether he thought too many immigrants had been allowed into the U.S. and “who should be allowed” into the country, Obama said the issue wasn’t whether to let immigrants in but to develop an official policy that makes it easier to become legal and discourages illegal immigration and penalizes employers who use illegal immigrants to avoid paying fair wages. He also said there should be greater equity across the board for immigrants as well, pointing out that “it’s much harder for Haitians to immigrate, despite similar circumstances in need” as other groups that have been admitted legally.
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So are you suggesting that more Haitians is a bad thing?
The point Obama is making is that there are discrepancies that support the decisioning process regarding whether or not to let someone enter our country legally depending on where they are from.
I thought you would be against such a thing.
I won’t just suggest it, I’ll state it outright.
More Haitians is a bad thing.
Wouldn’t expect you to be able to understand the underlying reasoning behind that statement, though, but our Constitution is not a suicide pact.
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Wow. America at its finest.
I have befriended and worked with several Haitian-Americans who received political asylum in the early 90s. These individuals are among the most upright, community-minded, church-going people I know– folks who don’t hesitate to help a stranger. I would gladly welcome more Haitian immigrants in my neighborhood.
Cheers to Obama for recognizing the inequality.
hell this takes the cake letting uneducated haitians come to america hell we have enough illegal mexicans with 300.000 anchor babies getting free medical food stamps on and on obama would let everyy black in north america come why to get their vote what a fu** joke
Overpopulation, congestion, urban sprawl, pollution, Water shortages,
environmental damage, crime, diminishing resources, Diseases, lack of
affordable housing, depressed wages, underground economic, fraudulent
documents, identity theft, tax evasion, soaring crime rate, increased tax
burdens, overcrowded schools, uneducated children, overcrowded prisons,
inadequate health care, the balkanization of our communities and a large
and growing population with loyalty to other Nations. The overall decline
in our quality of life are the result of unrestrained illegal immigration!
America cannot accept the worlds destitute population of other countries.
Criminals, Undesirables and Uneducated people. Too many people chasing too
few resources is not sound economic, social or cultural policy. This is not
racism but pragmatism & common sense!
Every industrialized nation has taken steps to end illegal immigration and
to limit legal immigration to only that which is prudent, demonstrably
necessary, and above all other concerns, in the best interest of their
native population. Its insane to suggest that America should not do
likewise! England and Australia have adopted a points system, when it comes
to immigration. You are just not going to get a working visa, unless you
have valuable skills to offer that nation.
If we enact the SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) as an enforcement tool against illegal
foreign nationals. Then they repatriate their person by ATTRITION. After
that then we could adopt an orderly guest worker program, with no legal
right to being a citizen. However, guest workers would receive a special
preferences, but first must return to their home country. But then they
could apply for legal residence.
To Daniel: Haitians you’ve met are an exeption, otherwise Haiti wouldn’be a hellhole that it is now. That’s why they left Haiti in the first place. When number of Haitians in your neighborhood will reach a critical mass your opinion will change.
To Alex: Actually, the Haitian immigrants I know personally left Haiti because their pro-democracy organization was being killed and “disappeared” by a government come to power via CIA-assisted coup– NOT because of any inherent inferiority of the country’s people.
How many Haitians do YOU know? Sat down and ate dinner with? Or are you just repeating what people tell you?
I didn’t have a chance to seat and eat with Haitians. I have a life. Haiti is the least developed country in Western Hemisphere with high illiteracy and crime rate. Children are still being enslaved there. During transition to “democracy” opponents of Aristide were necklaced. I don’t think you can blame CIA for that. I wonder if Haitians invented necklacing themselves or they learned it from Winnie Mandela? Why don’t you spend some time in Haiti? It’s populated by nice, god-fearing, nonviolent people, right? Why not to move all Haitians to the United States? I would suggest settling them by the Ted Kennedy’s compound. Would you welcome white farmers from Zimbabwe to your neihgborhood? They are being brutalized overthere.
Anyone who doesn’t threaten me or my neighbors, I welcome to my neighborhood. The Bible taught me that.
The last thing anywhere in the world needs is more Haitians, Haiti included. Sure there are some who are acceptable but as a whole they’re the lowest form of life aside from Gypsies and every time I’m forced to interact with one it just further confirms this fact.
seriously, i am in south florida and despise having to deal with the haitians. i never knew i had a racial bone until i moved here and experience the animal like behavior i see every weekend when i deal with haitians. as a nation we are remiss to not control them. for god’s sake, if they are here, they need to be educated in how to act like a human being rather than an animal. and for those of you that want to critisize me. bring it. i deal with them and know first hand. it is not an igorant resposne, but an educated one – becuase i took the time to try to understand them before i pass judgement. now i pass judgement.
Wow! You people bashing Haitians need to read up on Haitian history. I know many Haitians and they’re all different, just like any other nationality. STOP GROUPING PEOPLE TOGETHER BASED ON SOMETHING THEY CAN’T CONTROL! So what is they’re Haitian, that doesn’t dictate their lives, how they act, or the person they’re going to be. Haiti is home to some of the bravest people on the planet (that history book would teach you that). They have been screwed over, many times, especially by the US unfortunately. If you go to any Ivy league or top school, a lot of the black people there are Haitian. They can succeed if they are given the right circumstances, and unfortunately, Haiti doesn’t have them right now. Educate yourselves and stop saying ignorant things, it will make the world a better place.