Biden Border Policy Robbed Haiti of Chance at Democracy
The ever-bedeviled Caribbean island nation of Haiti is suffering its worst anarchy in decades, which says much about how lawless and pre-modern life there has become. Circumstances are so atrocious that nominal “leader,” Dr. Henry Ariel, who questionably inherited the top job after the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s last president, is begging for foreign military intervention.
But a world contemplating how to respond should know that an unlikely straight line of blame for this traces to, of all places, the small South Texas border city of Del Rio and an encampment of 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants that formed there in late September 2021 on the Rio Grande border with Mexico.
And, Haiti’s pain especially traces to how the Joe Biden White House liquidated that politically problematic camp.
Broader knowledge of what happened is key to helping Haiti out of its crisis now.
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