Posted on 12/10/2018 7:27:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the 1990s, William Barr, President Trump's pick for attorney general, oversaw a program that sent some 12,000 Haitian asylum seekers to Guantanamo Bay, effectively creating what one detractor called "the world's first HIV detention camp." After operating for about 18 months, the detention system was forcibly ended by a judge in 1993, but Barr defended the practice as recently as 2001.
At the time, Barr was serving as attorney general for President George H.W. Bush, and a military coup in Haiti had led to mass executions that targeted thousands of supporters of the overthrown leader. The bloodshed sent thousands of Haitians fleeing to Florida to seek asylum.
But soon the United States Coast Guard began intercepting the boats at sea and conducting preliminary screenings of the refugees on board. Those who didn't make it past the initial interview were immediately sent back to Haiti. When that practice was challenged in court, the Coast Guard quickly ran out of room to house the would-be migrants aboard ships. Federal immigration officials, wanting to avoid an influx of thousands of Haitian refugees in the U.S., instituted a policy of shuttling them to the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rather than the States.
A return to Haiti was a near certain death sentence for many of those who fled, said Ira Kurzban, an attorney and refugees' advocate who in 1991 fought against the program. The Haitian military would regularly patrol neighborhoods on the island, "literally pulling people out their homes to execute them in the streets," Kurzban said in a telephone interview with CBS News on Friday....
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Where as the Clintons would have taken their deadly aids blood and sold it to Canada!
I didn’t know anything about Barr, I thought he was a bushite, but this sounds promising.
No amnesty without border control! I hope he agrees with that
So?
Damned, we’ve got commie and commie symp lawyers here, Ratner, an avowed (now dead) Marxist and Kurzban, who hung with some Communist Party USA legal fronts. Don’t know if Ira has left the Left or not but he wasn’t as hardcore a red as Ratner who never met a terrorist, traitor, or red he didn’t like.
Oy vey! Ratner was a lunatic. Even the NYeT was a little unsubtle about his megalo Marxism...although maybe they just considered him blase...
"Mr. Ratner, who majored in medieval English at Brandeis University in the 1960s, was radicalized by the teachings of the New Left philosopher Herbert Marcuse and the preachings of a classmate, Angela Davis, who went on to become a leading counterculture activist and American Communist and continues to teach and speak publicly. He moved further to the left as a law student at Columbia University..."
And Marvin Kunstler stole his wife! At least Kunstler fought for his country in WW2. Ratner didn't contribute a goddamn thing.
: “Trump’s atty general pick used Gitmo to hold thousands of Haitian refugees”
Bravo!!! Sounds good to me, a man with guts.
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Care.
HIV detention Camp? Good let’s bring it home!
An Arkansas man was sentenced to prison after he admitted to intentionally contracting and then spreading HIV. Stephen Koch, 25, pled guilty ...
1. The Haitian holding/detention area was NOT like the high security “Gitmo” prison for Taliban and other war prisoners since 2001. Think of it as an Ellis Island or the refugee detention center set up in Arkansas during the Clinton administration
2. Gitmo is a lot closer to Haiti than the US mainland, thus quicker to get the boat loads of Haitian onto dry land and away from the dangers of dying on the open seas.
3. By landing the Haitians on Gitmo, it saved the US on problems whether or not they had to be accepted as asylum seekers.
4. Life there was probably better in Haiti itself.
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