Krikorian: The problem with Haiti – Slavery ended too soon

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Jan 242010
 
Krikorian: The problem with Haiti - Slavery ended too soon

Cross Posted from THE SANCTUARY Over the past ten days much has been written about Haiti’s troubled past, the ramifications and causes of it’s crushing poverty and political instability, and the historical role many nations have played in perpetuating it’s suffering. Of course coupled with these lessons in colonial, and post-colonial geo-political history have been the expected wingnut assertions like those of Pat Robinson about Haiti’s “pack with the devil” But now, thanks to Mark Krikorian, of the Center for Immigration Studies, a far-right “think tank” opposed to immigration, we get this little tidbit of neo-colonial/white-man’s burden analysis of why Haiti remains the poorest nation in the hemisphere:

TPS: Haiti’s illegal immigrants given temporary protection in US – ALIPAC objects as usual

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Jan 162010
 
TPS: Haiti's illegal immigrants given temporary protection in US - ALIPAC objects as usual

In a move supported by both Democrats and Republicans, the Obama administration Friday extended special protection to some 100,000 Haitians living illegally in the United States that keeps them from being deported. The Department of Homeland Security said it would offer Haitian nationals, who were already here when Tuesday’s earthquake struck, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months. That status, which would allow them to legally work, will not cover Haitians who flee their country following the devastating 7.0 quake that resulted in as many as 50,000 deaths and left its capital, Port-au-Prince, in ruins. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said it’s “tempting for people suffering in the aftermath of the earthquake to seek refuge elsewhere” but that “attempting to MORE