{"id":5979,"date":"2021-09-02T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2021-09-02T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:46:56","slug":"biden-is-turning-back-haitian-migrants-at-sea-echoing-a-shameful-chapter-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5979","title":{"rendered":"Biden is turning back Haitian migrants at sea, echoing a shameful chapter in US history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The US could soon be facing dual migrant crises<\/a> stemming from unrest in Haiti and Cuba. In response, the Biden administration has preemptively warned migrants not to try to come to the US by boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently confirmed that any migrants intercepted by the US Coast Guard off US shores will not be allowed to enter the country \u2014 they will be turned back or, if they express fear of returning to their home countries, repatriated to a third country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe time is never right to attempt migration by sea,\u201d Mayorkas said in a press conference <\/a>earlier this month. \u201cTo those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The policy isn\u2019t new. Past administrations, both Republican and Democratic, have employed this interdiction approach to prevent Caribbean migrants from reaching US shores. But although it was always done under the pretense of protecting migrants from the very real dangers of that journey, it resulted in many Haitians being returned to certain peril in their home country over the years and, under the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, languishing in what one federal judge called a \u201cprison camp<\/a>\u201d at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were held after being intercepted at sea.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The vast majority of migrants who passed through Guantanamo were returned to Haiti. A much smaller percentage were able to be paroled into the United States because they passed their asylum interviews.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2021\/7\/29\/22589316\/biden-haiti-migrant-boat-guantanamo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The US could soon be facing dual migrant crises stemming from unrest in Haiti and Cuba. In response, the Biden administration has preemptively warned migrants not to try to come to the US by boat.<\/p>\n

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently confirmed that any migrants intercepted by the US Coast Guard off US shores will not be allowed to enter the country \u2014 they will be turned back or, if they express fear of returning to their home countries, repatriated to a third country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe time is never right to attempt migration by sea,\u201d Mayorkas said in a press conference earlier this month. \u201cTo those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

The policy isn\u2019t new. Past administrations, both Republican and Democratic, have employed this interdiction approach to prevent Caribbean migrants from reaching US shores. But although it was always done under the pretense of protecting migrants from the very real dangers of that journey, it resulted in many Haitians being returned to certain peril in their home country over the years and, under the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, languishing in what one federal judge called a \u201cprison camp\u201d at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were held after being intercepted at sea.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The vast majority of migrants who passed through Guantanamo were returned to Haiti. A much smaller percentage were able to be paroled into the United States because they passed their asylum interviews.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[268,1210,1327,25,780],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asylum","tag-cuba","tag-haiti","tag-immigration","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5980,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}