Former U.S. Special Envoy to Haiti Daniel Foote recently referred to U.S. policy toward Haiti as an example of “insanity"—resorting to the same interventionist policies applied repeatedly over decades, always leading to the same disastrous results. Now the Biden crew has come up with another policy that is not only insane, but cruel and inhuman.
NBC News, The Hill, and other media report that the administration is assuming that once Port-au-Prince’s Varreux oil terminal is liberated from the gangs that currently control it and are thereby denying fuel to the population, the first thing Haitians might do is to use the newly-available fuel to hop onto boats and try to make the dangerous trip to the U.S. by sea in a “mass exodus.”
Since deporting people back to Haiti doesn’t look good (unfortunate “optics,” don’t you know), given current horrific conditions there, the National Security Council is asking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to determine how many incoming Haitians it would take for the U.S. to designate a third country as a receiving location (referred to as a “lily pad"). That is, where could those human beings be dumped, rather than allowing them into the U.S.?
