Entry pathway through Haiti

Washington Times ^ | May 3, 2003 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[sarcasm]

Because it detected an increase in third-country nationals, including Pakistanis and Palestinians, attempting to sneak into the United States from Haiti, and because it feared lax immigration enforcement would lead to a new boatlift from that country, the State Department recently urged the White House to adopt a policy of detaining illegal aliens arriving by boat from Haiti until they could be deported or granted asylum.

[Pearls Before Swine]

"Because it detected an increase in third-country nationals, including Pakistanis and Palestinians, attempting to sneak into the United States from Haiti, and because it feared lax immigration enforcement would lead to a new boatlift from that country, the State Department recently urged the White House to adopt a policy of detaining illegal aliens arriving by boat from Haiti until they could be deported or granted asylum."

Uhhhh.....duhhhh...someone help me out here. Does this say our current policy is NOT to detain them, but to simply let them loose in the US if they successfully make the boat trip? OMG. And does this say that the notoriously wishy-washy State Department is out front of the POTUS on this aspect of the borders issue? Tell me it ain't so.