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It Could Happen Here Weekly 86

It Could Happen Here

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The US's Hard Line on the Haitian Border

The US Embassy in Haiti tweeted a picture of President Joe Biden, looking off into the distance with a caption in both English and Haitian Creole. The translation above it was, I can say quite clearly, don't come over. In July of that year, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that Haitians and Cubans fleeing unrest in their countries will not find safety in the US. This is because we're expelling people to places where they have no hope of a better future,. Meanwhile, there's much less concern from the right and from Democrats at the fact that Ukrainians are exempted from Title 42.

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