From morning until night, Dieula Celestin's cellphone rings in Miami's Little Haiti. It is her younger brother, Roger Paul, calling from Port-au-Prince, where he and their 65-year-old mother live with no food, no job and no money in the street outside the remnants of their house. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Google News (Immigration), Washington Post
A very relevant topic, as it relates to Haiti now and other nations in peril where citizens there have family members who are legal residents of the U.S. A wide range of points of view are presented. Some solid statistics. An accurate, though brief, snapshot of Haiti's current status regarding this issue.
Still, Elliott Abrams, a deputy national security adviser under President George W. Bush who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations, said that if the United States doubled for the next five years the 25,000 Haitians who have been coming to the United States annually, it would substantially increase the remittances sent back, providing critical help as the nation tries to rebuild. Such help streaming home to families is more reliable and more likely to be spent efficiently than the ebb and flow of foreign aid, he said. Abrams suggested that to satisfy critics of increased immigration, the United States could offset the influx of Haitians by temporarily slowing immigration from elsewhere.
Very interesting perspective. I had not heard this POV before re: Haiti and I’d like to see some statistics on it.
I hope the media continues to cover this story as the initial devastation fades and the incredibly complicated, tough work of rebuilding lives and infrastructure starts.