Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is warning the Biden Administration to intercept a mass migration of illegal Haitians heading for the United States.
Rubio and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) penned a hostile letter to the president, demanding that he do his job and protect U.S. citizens instead of opening the floodgates and allowing millions of unvetted illegal immigrants to pour into the country at no cost.
Though the GOP senators called for “sympathy” and “targeted American assistance” for Haiti, Rubio and Scott stress that violent gangs, who have helped thousands of Haitians escape from prison, will end up in the interior of the U.S.
Floridians and the rest of the American public will not tolerate your administration again opening the floodgates for countless, unvetted foreign nationals to stream into our country, putting our national security at grave risk and creating untold public safety threats for our communities. We must consider this danger due to the numerous reports of gangs committing jailbreaks in Haiti and releasing thousands of dangerous criminals.
This is unfair to the D.R., which is a developing nation with limited resources, and which is already bearing significant burdens on Haiti’s behalf. Anyone who doubts this should consider the fact that more than a third of all births in the D.R. are currently to Haitian citizens.
But encouraging illegal mass migration is also unfair to our country. The Biden Administration seems unaware that many Haitians view the D.R. as a stepping stone to Puerto Rico—and that a well-established smuggling ring to facilitate that journey already exists. Because our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico have their own fiscal constraints, illegal migrants that reach the U.S. territory would likely move on to the continental United States.
Like most Americans, I also recognize that no country should experience illegal mass migration—not the D.R., and not the United States. Illegal mass migration does no good for the nation people are migrating from. When all able-bodied, law-abiding citizens leave their homeland, there is no one left to defend it from criminals and tyrants—and no one left to provide for the vulnerable who remain there. On a more fundamental level, though, I cannot support illegal mass migration because the job of elected officials is to protect their citizens first, not anyone else’s. Rubio and Scott's letter via the Daily Wire.
Rubio reintroduced the Haitian Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act— which is set to expire in 2025— saying that it is “in our national interest to help Haiti as it faces unimaginable hardships as a result of political corruption, natural disasters, and rampant crime. The HELP Act is an important bipartisan measure that will extend trade benefits and boost the country’s largest industry.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has done his own work to secure and protect his state’s borders by deploying officers and soldiers as he continues to warn against President Joe Biden’s open border threats to the nation.
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According to a report, the illegal Haitian immigrant was released into the U.S. less than a year after scheduling an appointment at the border through the controversial app.
