Activists are fighting to prevent the deportation of over one hundred Haitian migrants who reached
“We have agencies here used to working with Haitian refugees. When people have good representation, they have a better chance of presenting their cases appropriately.”The “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy that has helped thousand of Cuban migrants gain asylum in the U.S. has long been a lightening rod of controversy in the Haitian community; Haitians are resentful of a perceived double standard that helps Cuban migrants at the expense of those from Haiti.
Links- CBS13.com, International Herald Tribune,
Image- CBS News
2 comments:
Cubans fled and are fleeing Castro's brand of communism, and that's why they are greeted with relatively open arms. Haitians are fleeing poverty, violence and a corrupt government. To me, these are equally good reasons to flee a country. But to America, only the Cuban reasoning is lucrative enough.
One wonders what will happen to the "double standard" once Cuba becomes a democracy.
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