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Most of the migrants in Del

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 04:52:17 +0000

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Most of the migrants in Del Rio, Tex., camp have been sent to Haiti or turned back to Mexico, DHS figures show https://t.co/4LGEXpAEqn
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 2, 2021

VERY good point. Don't know

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 19:03:52 +0000

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VERY good point. Don't know how it's going for you around there but around here staffing is getting to be a serious problem, just doing regular errands you encounter a lot more surliness. Which was always a part of NYC but it's worse than ever before. The kind where you can't get anyone to help you and if you are lucky enough to get a human being, they are angry as if ready to quit and want to take it out on you....few smiles to be sure. Here besides pay I think it is transportation! If getting to/from a job is a headache every day, it doesnt help. Certainly an immigrant who went through hell to get to our border is going to have a different attitude, at least for a while.

Overall I am getting more and more skeptical about pro-density proponents like Yglesias. People seem to want to have more space permanently and be less crowded together, they've had a taste of not being in the rat race in meat space and want to keep it, the rat race can exist in virtual space. I realize it's bad for the planet.but I still see it as a long-term trend. And immigrants are the ones who will staff the CVS in suburban areas and the ones who will deliver the orders from Amazon from people who shop at stores less...

Someone has to work at CVS

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 05:39:30 +0000

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Someone has to work at CVS and Amazon warehouses. It's not like we need a bunch more doctors and lawyers...

Of course define sexual

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 05:35:29 +0000

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Of course define sexual harassment... and compare it with past decades for the military.

and lo and behold the other

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:14:07 +0000

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and lo and behold the other recent refugees are featured in this story right wingers are playing up big right now:

“A female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being assaulted on Sept. 19 by a small group of male evacuees at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico,” Lt. Col. Allie Payne, a public affairs officer at Fort Bliss, said in a statement. https://t.co/8Uv2O4SbX9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 25, 2021

and this is a good reply to the latter:

Fort Bliss is a sexual predator haven and one of the most dangerous places for women yet republicans didn't care for years until the alleged assaulter was Afghan and they could exploit it now they pretend to care. https://t.co/P8UaFgybvh
— Jimmy (@JimmyStreich) September 25, 2021

My thoughts went in another

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 23:09:42 +0000

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My thoughts went in another direction, to history. How an unvetted bunch of "refugees" from one place to another is often quite the mixed bunch. Of this 1980 list, I underlined those who might be labelled "bad apples":

Notable Marielitos

Notable Mariel boatlift refugees include:

Carlos Alfonzo, a painter and sculptor[62]

Reinaldo Arenas, poet and novelist

Ignacio Berroa, jazz drummer

Elizabeth Caballero, opera singer

Hugo Cancio, businessman, CEO of Fuego Enterprises, publisher of the magazine OnCuba[63]

Felix Delgado, rapper and songwriter known as Cuban Link

Olga María Rodríguez Farinas, widow of William Alexander Morgan, a leader of rebel forces in the Cuban Revolution

Luis Felipe, convicted murderer and founder of the New York branch of the Latin Kings gang

Bárbaro Garbey, baseball player and coach[64]

Julio González, arsonist and mass-murderer

Francisco del Junco, serial killer[65]

Rene Lavan, actor and soap opera star

Mailet Lopez, founder of I Had Cancer, a social networking site

Pedro Medina, executed for murder

Jesus Mezquia, murderer of Mia Zapata

Mirta Ojito, writer and Pulitzer Prize winner

Ras Juan Perez, founder of the Cuban reggae band Arawak Jah

Orlando "Puntilla" Ríos, folkloric percussionist and vocalist[66]

Felipe García Villamil, Palo Monte priest, drummer, and artist[67]

Pedro Zamora, who appeared on the television show The Real World

of course, reasonable people might differ on whether soap opera and reality TV actors are desirable additions to a country, but I didn't underline them.

Note: bad to whip ppl by

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:46:27 +0000

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Note: bad to whip ppl by horseback. Ok to shoot ppl from Humvee or "precision" bomb them from drone.

um just discovered at

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 05:00:49 +0000

In reply to Thousands of Haitian migrants wait under bridge in Texas after mass border crossing

um just discovered at Wikipedia that the number of Haitians in the U.S. is second only to the number of them in Haiti! So much for the racism accusation. Go yell at France instead, they speak the same language

HAITIANS

Total population c. 13 million

Regions with significant population

Haiti 10,604,000[1]

United States1,036,385[2][3]

Dominican Republic800,000[4]

Cuba300,000[5]

Chile185,865[6][7]

Canada165,095 (2016)[8]

Brazil135,828 (2020)[9

] Bahamas80,000[10]

France62 448[11][12][13]

French Guiana40,000[14]

Guyana33,500[15]

Venezuela30,000[16]

Dominica7,600[17]

Turks and Caicos Islands6,900[17]

Mexico5,000 (2017)[18]

Suriname4,000[19]

Switzerland4,000 (2018)[20][21]

U.S. Virgin Islands1,673[22]

Belgium1,500-2,000[23]

Cayman Islands1,500[17]

United Kingdom1,000[24]

Ecuador1,000[25]

Aruba1,000[17]

Argentina600[26]

Netherlands594[27]

Puerto Rico536 - 5,000[28][29][30]

Peru477 (2007) [31]

Spain335[32]

Italy262[33][34]

Austria52[35]

Thousands of Haitians Allowed

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 03:32:27 +0000

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Thousands of Haitians Allowed to Stay in U.S. as Texas Camp Clears Out

Border agents are making life-altering decisions for thousands of Haitian families on the border on whether they can stay in the U.S. or be deported

Caption: Migrants at the Houston Family Transfer Center in Houston on Thursday.Credit...Mark Felix for The New York Times

By Edgar Sandoval, Simon Romero and Miriam Jordan @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 23, 2021 Updated 9:54 p.m. ET

long article also has many photos~

SAN ANTONIO — In Houston, nearly 2,000 Haitian migrants have arrived this week from the small border community of Del Rio, with buses pulling up to a huge shelter nearly every hour. In San Antonio, hundreds more have been allowed by the U.S. authorities onto flights to destinations as far away as New York, Boston and Miami, paperwork in their pockets permitting them to remain in the country.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported about 2,000 migrants in recent days on chartered flights to Haiti as the Biden administration tries to deter more people from rushing to the border. But the authorities have also permitted thousands more to travel to cities across America, where they may live for months or years as they await immigration hearings.

“We are so happy to be in America,” said Inso Isaac, 40, who left Haiti years ago and was living in Chile until he, his wife and their 2-year-old son made the dangerous journey across several countries and arrived last week in Del Rio. On Wednesday, the family boarded a flight to New York, where they planned to stay with relatives on Long Island. “We want to start a new life here,” he said.

A chance to settle in the United States, however slim, has driven the latest surge, compelling more than 14,000 migrants to wade across the Rio Grande and into Del Rio over the past week, where they have encountered armed National Guard troops and Border Patrol agents on horseback. On Thursday, about 3,100 remained huddled in squalid conditions under the international bridge that connects Del Rio to Mexico, circumstances that have prompted outrage from both Republicans and Democrats.

[....]

It was unclear on Thursday how many Haitians had been deported as opposed to being allowed to enter the country and await asylum hearings. All told, nearly 2,000 Haitians had been returned to Haiti by late Thursday, about 40 percent of them family units, according to a Department of Homeland Security official. Resettlement groups said they were aware of about a roughly equal number from Del Rio who had been given permission to stay in the country.

[....]

At the San Antonio airport on Wednesday evening, a number of Haitian families who had been in Del Rio waited to board planes to various American cities. Mr. Isaac, holding a paper that instructed him to report to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office within 15 days of arriving in New York, said he would need to find a lawyer. But that felt like an easy task after spending $12,000 and several weeks traversing South and Central America by foot and bus and swimming in dirty rivers.

Nearby, Israel Fleurios, 31, and Widna Azema, 35, waited for a flight to Miami, where they planned to stay with an aunt of Mr. Fleurios’s. The couple fled Haiti five years ago and had spent several years in Brazil before making the journey to Del Rio, an unlikely spot for Haitian migrants but a border crossing that they had heard was accessible.

Ms. Azema was pregnant when they left Brazil, and she gave birth to a daughter, Bruna, in Guatemala, and carried her the rest of the distance to Texas. The couple has another daughter, Valentina, 3, who has a skeletal disorder that prevents her from walking upright.

“I think they let me through because they saw how bad she was,” Ms. Azema said of the border authorities’ reaction to Valentina’s condition. “Everybody with children like us were allowed to get through. We are appreciative.”

In a corner of the airport, many other Haitian migrants sat anxiously with their few belongings. [....]

U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 02:49:16 +0000

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U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Daniel Foote, a career diplomat, has resigned in the wake of the Biden administration's decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees from the U.S. border, calling the move "inhumane" and "counterproductive." https://t.co/AruyZXaVv1
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) September 23, 2021

I really want to say something naughty. Oh what the heck, I will: hey look he's a white guy but in actuality he's part of the plot, it's dirty trick, he just wants to lure Haitians to a systemically racist country from Chile, which is not systemically racist and no longer colonized and where they had asylum status.