Haitian Immigration Would Be Bad, Actually, Even If They Were Vegans

 

If you read Peter Brimelow’s Alien Nation, you’ll find that Haitian immigration was a problem even in the 90s, when then-President Bill Clinton was “forced to order the interception of boats carrying would-be illegal immigrants from Haiti on the high seas” because of America’s “inability to expel asylum seekers” [Alien Nation, p.27].

A. M. Rosenthal  defended Haitian illegal immigration in the New York Times because he himself had been an illegal immigrant in the 1930s—brought by his father illegally  from Canada in the 1930s, rather than fleeing Russia. Also defending Haitian illegals: “conservative” P. J. O’Rourke in the American Spectator, who compared Clinton’s defense of the US from Haitian rafters to the actions of the Ku Klux Klan. [Kleagle Clinton A meditation on the Caribbean refugee crisis, November 1994].

Rosenthal thought the Haitians were the same as the pre-1924 Ellis Island immigrants, and O’Rourke thought that just by illegally floating to America (endangering their own lives and the lives of their children) the Haitians had shown the gumption that America needs.

I’m not sure that either man had met a Haitian at this point. Haitians are different from Americans in a number of ways.

In Springfield, OH, which has been stricken by a huge wave of Haitian immigrants, they are still arguing about whether local Haitians are eating cats, dogs, and ducks and geese out of parks.

RTWT