C-17 Globemaster takes Haitian evacuees to Orlando, Florida.
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All indications are that the Obama administration is going to game the system to allow hundreds of thousands, if not more than a million Haitians into the United States. The first step was granting temporary protected status (TPS) to up to 200,000 Haitian illegal aliens.
"This sounds to me like open borders advocates exercising the Rahm Emanuel axiom: 'Never let a crisis go to waste,'" Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said in an e-mail message to ABC News "Illegal immigrants from Haiti have no reason to fear deportation but if they are deported, Haiti is in great need of relief workers and many of them could be a big help to their fellow Haitians."
Next we learn that Janet Napolitano will allow orphaned children to enter the U.S. on a temporary basis. One adult can accompany one child. If 200,000 people were killed in the earthquake there could be as many as 200,000 orphans -- or 400,000 migrants -- or more.
The question is, how does one determine who is an orphan? The entire government infrastructure in Haiti has been destroyed; leaving Obama's open-borders administration room to give applicants the benefit of the doubt. We could see one million Haitians on our shores under this program.
The New York Times reports that for those boarding boats to head for the U.S. the Coast Guard would scoop them up and send them to Guantanamo Bay. Who thinks those people would be sent back to Haiti when Guantanamo is overwhelmed?
We must all donate money to rescue the Haitian people, but we must also insist that they be rescued at home. We cannot afford to support one million people in our midst when our own state and local governments are nearing fiscal collapse.
