The disaster in Haiti has opened the door for yet another ignorant a*s Republican to earn himself a “Ho Sit Down”. Look under the hood to see what Rep. Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, said about Haitians asking for temporary protected status (TPS).
“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 ABCNews. “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.”
His comments followed a decision by Homeland Security to halt deportations to Haiti.
Yesterday the Obama administration went a step further by granting “temporary protective status,” or TPS, to Haitian nationals allows immigrants already in the U.S. to live and work freely here until conditions in Haiti improve. After 18 months the status could be revoked.
For the Haitian nationals already here, who knows what past natural disaster, hurricane or political strife may have brought them to the U.S? Haiti does indeed need relief workers — people who are skilled and trained at assisting in emergency situations, and with hundreds of thousands of lives hanging in the balance, this man carelessly suggests we send some of the very people who need help into a dangerous situation?
SMH.
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