Now we are left to pick up the pieces of some of the best-developed policies for the safety of the USA and it's neighbors.
It might give people a bad taste for democracy and turn to other global powers for help and leadership.
November 20, 2017By Miriam Jordan
The Trump administration (click here) is ending a humanitarian program that has allowed some 59,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States since an earthquake ravaged their country in 2010, Homeland Security officials said on Monday.
Haitians with what is known as Temporary Protected Status will be expected to leave the United States by July 2019 or face deportation....
Haitians with what is known as Temporary Protected Status will be expected to leave the United States by July 2019 or face deportation....
...Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, is still struggling to recover from the earthquake and relies heavily on money its expatriates send to relatives back home. The Haitian government had asked the Trump administration to extend the protected status.
“I received a shock right now,” Gerald Michaud, 45, a Haitian who lives in Brooklyn, said when he heard the news. He has been working at La Guardia Airport as a wheelchair attendant, sending money to family and friends back home. He said he feared for his welfare and safety back in Haiti now that his permission to remain in the United States was ending.
“The situation is not good in my country,” he said. “I don’t know where I am able to go.”
Haitians are the second-largest group of foreigners with temporary status. The protection is extended to people already in the United States who have come from countries crippled by natural disasters or armed conflict that prevents their citizens from returning or prevents their country from adequately receiving them. The government periodically reviews each group’s status and decides whether to continue the protections....
Then there is the anti-narcotic monies.
...The NAS provides assistance to enable the Government of Haiti (click here) to establish a visible and legitimate police and security presence, one that is based on justice and the rule of law, that engenders a culture of lawfulness and respect for human rights, and that provides protection for vulnerable populations, such as abused women and children. Specific NAS projects target the Haitian National Police (HNP), specialized counter-narcotics and anti-money laundering units, justice sector reforms, and the corrections sector.
Police
NAS funds general training for police officers – including the 22nd class of 903 HNP cadets, which began its seven-month long training program in September 2010, and specialized training – such as the 24-person counter-drug/counter-kidnap class the U.S. government co-sponsored with the Colombian National Police in Bogota.
Through the State Department’s INL Bureau, NAS oversees a year-long program bringing six Haitian-American New York Police Department (NYPD) officers for 90-day rotations with the HNP. The NYPD offer technical assistance and mentoring to the HNP’s judicial/investigative bureau....
How much do Americans want to correct the wayward policies of Donald John Trump? This is what happens when the USA abandons democratic efforts in countries friendly to the USA. We saw the collapse of the Northern Triad and now we are seeing the pain of what occurs when democracy fails a people that have embraced it for so long. The USA has always been the big sister and brother to Haiti.
Through not fault of their own, Haitians found themselves facing enormous tragedy when a horrible earthquake hit the country. Rightfully, the USA came to assist Haiti to try and save the country from death, disease, and absolute destruction. A country like Haiti cannot handle the world alone. That holds true for the countries of the Northern Triad. Either there is no viable economy and/or there are worldly forces such as drug cartels that devastate the land, the people, and any attempt of governance. These countries are in the Western Hemisphere. The Western Hemisphere is the place where the USA exists. It is our responsibility to assist in the national security of marginal countries, otherwise, Russia plants nuclear capacity jets in places like a failed country such as Venezuela.
By Benjamin Hart and Nia Prater
Jovenel Moïse, (click here) the president of Haiti, was assassinated by unknown assailants in a brazen assault on his home early Wednesday morning. Moïse’s wife was shot and has been hospitalized.
According to a tweet from Haiti’s communications secretary Frantz Exantus, police had arrested the “presumed assassins” by Wednesday night. Haiti’s police chief Léon Charles added that four of the suspected assassins had been fatally shot by officers, while two more were arrested in what appeared to be a hostage situation; three police officers that were held hostage were also freed.
The Miami Herald reported that the assassins claimed to be Drug Enforcement Administration agents. In videos recorded by residents of the neighborhood, a man with an American accent can be heard shouting via a megaphone, “DEA operation. Everybody stand down. DEA operation. Everybody back up, stand down.” A Haitian government official told the Herald that these assailants weren’t DEA. “These were mercenaries,” they said....
By Dalton Bennett, Sarah Cahlan, Elyse Samuels, and Anthony Faiola
Several weeks before they were arrested in the July 7 assassination (click here) of the Haitian president, 13 Colombian nationals — some of them former military — traveled to the Dominican Republic, the country that shares an island with Haiti, according to Colombian police.
The men arrived in two groups. A group of two traveled through Panama in early May, and a group of 11 traveled directly from Bogota on June 4, according to flight records released by the Colombian police.
At least two of the men visited a popular tourist destination in the capital city Santo Domingo, according to images the police released. Those photos, along with images of the same location from one of the suspect’s social media accounts, are the earliest known images showing the alleged mercenaries were in the same location before the attack.
The Washington Post gathered photos and videos of the suspects and of the hours before and after the assassination to assemble a timeline of how the brazen attack unfolded....
...It remains unclear who organized the attack on the Haitian president, Jovenel Moïse. The detained suspects include two U.S. citizens of Haitian descent, identified as Florida residents James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, 55, according to Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister of elections and interparty relations. An official who interrogated the pair said Solages claimed he was hired as an interpreter for “foreigners” after applying for the job online. The men and some of their family members claim that they didn’t know the president was going to be assassinated.
Solages told the official they were acting on an order to arrest the president authorized by a judge. He admitted to meeting with the foreigners for about a month, eating at the restaurant inside the Royal Oasis Hotel, 10 minutes from the president’s residence where the assassination took place....
