Comments on: Border Patrol Right Or Wrong Against Haitian Migrants?

By: Saleem

Saleem — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:46:57 +0000

White men in positions of power have a history of overreacting and treating Black bodies like animals. So I don’t buy the narrative of them only doing their jobs. Even though they have an obligation to control admission into the country they still overstepped their bounds with their response. Anybody watching that video can see it was overkill. An investigation needs to be had and changes need to be made.

By: Mr.BD

Mr.BD — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:19:22 +0000

DJ thanks for writing about this story but this is a hard one. At first I was like everybody else and was saying this should have never happen. Then you made some good points. The border police could not stand back and let all those thousands of people do whatever. What else were they supposed to do but get on horses and try to keep everybody in line. We need more information to know if something bad happened or if they were just doing their job. Everybody might have rushed to judge before knowing all the facts.

By: Wil

Wil — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:50:14 +0000

USA Today:

A camp of over 10,000 migrants who crossed the Rio Grande at a low point between Ciudad Acuña, Mexico and Del Rio, Texas, have been waiting beneath the international bridge in Del Rio to open an asylum claim. U.S. and Mexican officials warned Sunday that those in the camp would be deported back to Haiti.

Horace Campbell, professor of African American Studies and Political Science at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University called the expulsion of Haitians “inhumane” and “criminal.”

“The economic conditions in Haiti since 2010 have been unspeakable,” said Campbell, referring to a 2010 earthquake that devastated the island nation.
More recently, the country has seen a presidential assassination and another powerful earthquake just this year, leaving the nation’s economy and government in dire conditions.

“What the United States government is doing is unspeakable given the crisis in Haiti …. as one person said, it amounts to something being criminal,” Campbell added.