Florida Senator Marco Rubio <a href="https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2024/04/18/president_biden_must_not_encourage_illegal_mass_migration_from_haiti_1025892.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned President Biden</a> not to accept mass migration from Haiti, saying, “the job of elected officials is to protect their citizens first, not anyone else’s.”
Rubio is intent on helping the Haitian people. After the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Congress passed the Haitian Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act to help rebuild Haiti’s domestic industry, but it expires in 2025. Last year, Rubio reintroduced the Act, saying, “It is in our national interest to help Haiti as it faces unimaginable hardships as a result of political corruption, natural disasters, and rampant crime. The HELP Act is an important bipartisan measure that will extend trade benefits and boost the country’s largest industry.”
In mid-March, Rubio and fellow Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-scott-to-biden-help-floridians-prepare-for-a-mass-migration-from-haiti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> President Biden, “Floridians and the rest of the American public will not tolerate your administration again opening the floodgates for countless, unvetted foreign nationals to stream into our country, putting our national security at grave risk and creating untold public safety threats for our communities. We must consider this danger due to the numerous reports of gangs committing jailbreaks in Haiti and releasing thousands of dangerous criminals.”
In his column discussing Haitian mass migration, Rubio noted that the Biden administration is pushing the Dominican Republic to accept three million Haitians fleeing their ravaged country.
“This is unfair to the D.R., which is a developing nation with limited resources, and which is already bearing significant burdens on Haiti’s behalf,” Rubio wrote. “Anyone who doubts this should consider the fact that <a href="https://cdn.com.do/nacionales/legisladores-responden-amnistia-35-partos-en-rd-es-a-haitianas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than a third</a> of all births in the D.R. are currently to Haitian citizens.”
Then he addressed the possibility of mass migration from Haiti to the U.S.: “But encouraging illegal mass migration is also unfair to our country. The Biden Administration seems unaware that many Haitians view the D.R. as a stepping stone to Puerto Rico—and that a well-established smuggling ring to facilitate that journey already exists. Because our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico have their own fiscal constraints, illegal migrants that reach the U.S. territory would likely move on to the continental United States.”
“Like most Americans, I recognize that what is happening in Haiti is horrible and tragic,” Rubio continued. “The breakdown of law and order, the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/dominican-republic-ramps-up-border-security-haiti-crisis-shows-new-border-wall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">displacement</a> of more than 300,000 people, and the need of roughly five million for some form of aid—all of these are matters of grave concern. This is why I support the international peacekeeping mission that Kenya proposes to lead once Haiti has established a provisional government. In addition, I have <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-leads-bipartisan-measure-to-extend-economic-support-for-haiti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reintroduced</a> legislation to preserve U.S. trade benefits for Haitian manufacturers, which could prove a lifeline to legitimate Haitian businesses in this time of crisis.”
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“But, like most Americans, I also recognize that no country should experience illegal mass migration—not the D.R., and not the United States. Illegal mass migration does no good for the nation people are migrating from,” he stated. “When all able-bodied, law-abiding citizens leave their homeland, there is no one left to defend it from criminals and tyrants—and no one left to provide for the vulnerable who remain there. On a more fundamental level, though, I cannot support illegal mass migration because the job of elected officials is to protect their citizens first, not anyone else’s.”

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On Tuesday, House Republicans demanded the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/state-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Department</a> offer an explanation for the &#8220;trend&#8221; of U.S. embassy closures and staff evacuations during the past few years of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a>.
Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/antony-blinken" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antony Blinken</a> requesting a briefing on how the United States can meet its foreign policy objectives with a &#8220;diminished diplomatic presence&#8221; in &#8220;high-threat&#8221; countries.
The chairman noted the State Department has been &#8220;forced to reduce or suspend operations at several posts across the globe since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, including in Burma, Afghanistan, Belarus, Russia, Sudan, and Niger.&#8221;
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🚨BREAKING🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesComer</a> is investigating the Biden Administration’s series of embassy closures and partial evacuations around the world.
Since President Biden took office, the State Department has been forced to reduce or suspend operations at several posts across the… <a href="https://t.co/rWuC8pH6ow">pic.twitter.com/rWuC8pH6ow</a>
&mdash; Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1772692015328665924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Comer also listed Haiti, where an elite Marine team was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elite-marine-team-deployed-to-protect-u-s-embassy-in-haiti-as-country-descends-into-chaos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deployed</a> to protect the U.S. Embassy in the capital of Port-au-Prince after the military <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-evacuates-embassy-staff-in-haiti-as-yet-another-country-erupts-in-turmoil-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evacuated</a> non-essential personnel as the country descended into chaos.
&#8220;Now, the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti recently began evacuating some personnel and enhancing security given deteriorating conditions and gang violence close to the compound,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;These closures and service reductions are leading to a diminished U.S. diplomatic presence abroad,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;Closures and reduced service status have serious implications for U.S. citizens residing in those countries, as well as foreign nationals who must travel elsewhere to access consular services.&#8221;
Comer said his committee is &#8220;also concerned about the repeated necessity of withdrawing U.S. personnel, and whether deteriorating conditions in those countries are the result, even in part, of failed U.S. foreign policy.&#8221;
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The chairman said his panel is requesting a briefing from the State Department &#8220;on this trend&#8221; by April 2.
&#8220;Briefers should specifically be prepared to identify and discuss all embassies or consulate posts experiencing closures or reduced services, other high-threat posts not currently in closure or reduced status, actions being taken to secure embassy personnel and assets at these high-threat posts, contingency plans to respond in emergency situations, an assessment of why this trend has occurred, and an assessment of whether this trend will continue,&#8221; Comer said.
&#8220;Briefers should also be prepared to discuss the impact of closures or reduced service status on national security, the administration and oversight of U.S. foreign assistance, and the Department’s ongoing ability to effectuate U.S. interests abroad,&#8221; he added.
The Daily Wire reached out to the State Department seeking comment.
In response, an agency spokesperson said the department does not comment on congressional correspondence as a &#8220;general matter.&#8221;

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More U.S. embassies have been forced to evacuate under President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> than any other president in U.S. history, according to a new analysis.
The news comes after the Biden administration was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-evacuates-embassy-staff-in-haiti-as-yet-another-country-erupts-in-turmoil-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced</a> to send in the military to evacuate the U.S. embassy in Haiti last week as the after gangs freed thousands of violent criminals from prison in the country&#8217;s capital, pushing the country to the brink of total collapse.
An analysis from The Daily Signal found that a total of 11 embassies have been evacuated under Biden, more than any other president in U.S. history.
&#8220;In Obama&#8217;s admin (2nd most evacuations in history), 8 embassies were evacuated (over 8 yrs),&#8221; said investigative columnist Tony Kinnett. &#8220;In Trump&#8217;s admin, only 3 were evacuated. Biden&#8217;s administration evacuated embassies in 11 countries, but evacuated Haiti 4 times, making his total more like 14.&#8221;
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First, some context:
In Obama&#39;s admin (2nd most evacuations in history), 8 embassies were evacuated (over 8 yrs).
In Trump&#39;s admin, only 3 were evacuated.
Biden&#39;s administration evacuated embassies in 11 countries, but evacuated Haiti 4 times, making his total more like 14.
&mdash; Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTonus/status/1769848936473280528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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During the Biden-era, the U.S. had to evacuate embassies in Burma in 2021, Haiti in 2021, Chad in 2021, Afghanistan in 2021, Ethiopia in 2021, Haiti in 2022, Ukraine in 2022, Belarus in 2022, Russia in 2022, Nigeria in 2022, Haiti in 2023, Sudan in 2023, Niger in 2023, and Haiti in 2024.
The U.S. State Department said this week that nearly 1,000 Americans who are still stranded in Haiti have filled out crisis intake forms requesting emergency assistance to escape.
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&#8220;It is not hyperbole to say that this is one of the most dire humanitarian situations in the world,&#8221; said State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel. &#8220;Gang violence continues to make the security situation in Haiti untenable, and it is a region that demands our attention.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a fluid situation and the number of individuals who have reached out to us through the crisis intake form is approaching a thousand,&#8221; he added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-haitians-who-illegally-arrive-in-florida-very-well-could-be-sent-to-marthas-vineyard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeSantis: Haitians Who Illegally Arrive In Florida ‘Very Well’ Could Be Sent To Martha’s Vineyard</a>

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> said this week that Haitians who illegally enter the U.S. through Florida might be sent by the state to the liberal enclave of Martha&#8217;s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
DeSantis made the remarks while speaking to conservative radio host Dana Loesch about a potential wave of illegal aliens from Haiti that could soon be hitting Florida&#8217;s shores as the island nation is on the verge of total collapse after being largely taken over by hyper-violent street gangs.
DeSantis said that it was vital that the state of Florida interdict any vessel carrying illegal aliens before they hit the state&#8217;s shores because the state can&#8217;t push them back across the border like the state of Texas can since it borders Mexico.
&#8220;We do have our transport program also that&#8217;s going to be operational,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;So Haitians land in the Florida Keys, their next stop very well may be Martha&#8217;s Vineyard.&#8221;
DeSantis said last week amid reports that a large influx of Haitians could illegally enter the state that Florida &#8220;has been dedicating significant resources to combat illegal vessels coming to Florida from countries such as Haiti.&#8221;
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&#8220;Given the circumstances in Haiti, I have directed the Division of Emergency Management, the Florida State Guard, and state law enforcement agencies to deploy over 250 additional officers and soldiers and over a dozen air and sea craft to the southern coast of Florida to protect our state,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No state has done more to supplement the (under-resourced) U.S. Coast Guard’s interdiction efforts; we cannot have illegal aliens coming to Florida.&#8221;
The situation in Haiti went from bad to worse after gangs stormed the Port-au-Prince jail and freed thousands of criminals back onto the country’s streets in recent weeks. The small, impoverished country has been devastated by everything from major earthquakes to political assassinations.
The gangs have attacked the country’s main international airport and police stations, looted ports and buildings, and blocked shipments of humanitarian aid.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-announces-florida-interdicted-boat-with-25-haiti-immigrants-firearms-drugs-aboard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeSantis Announces Florida Interdicted Boat With 25 Haiti Immigrants, Firearms, Drugs Aboard</a>

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On Friday, Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis revealed that officers of the state had interdicted suspected illegal aliens fleeing Haiti on February 29.
The boat interdicted by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers, was 42 feet long, contained five unaccompanied children, and was operated by a U.S. citizen, Florida’s Voice<a href="https://flvoicenews.com/florida-intercepts-turns-over-suspected-haitian-illegals-with-weapons-and-drugs-desantis-says/"> reported</a>, adding that according to authorities, the suspects were part of a “human smuggling operation,” and that the individuals were “lying prone on the deck of the boat.”
“Just recently, within  the last couple of weeks, and this will be made public later today, our Florida Fish and Wildlife officers interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potential illegal immigrants, from Haiti,” DeSantis announced.
“In their boat, in their vessel, they had firearms, they had drugs, they had night vision  gear and they were boating very recklessly, which would potentially endanger other folks. So that vessel was interdicted near the Sebastian Inlet, and those illegal aliens were turned over to the Coast Guard for deportation,” he stated.
“So our folks have been doing this before we augmented this and they’re going to continue to do it, and we’ve got an incredible amount of resources that are now on display to be able to prevent,” he continued. “Now, what’s different today than maybe in the past? Well, part of it is we have more resources that the state has been willing to put up.”
He turned to the failure of the Biden administration to do its job: “And this is not really our responsibility; this is the federal government’s responsibility. Coast Guard does by and large a good job but they’re undermanned; they’re under-resourced, so we’re filling those gaps.”
“I think one difference now is — and we see this with our folks that we have at the border — you have people coming across the southern border from all over the world, Haitians can get to the United States easier by flying to Mexico and walking across the border,” he explained. “And so I anticipate, if flights resume, that will likely be where a lot of those folks who are trying to flee (Haiti), if they want to come to the United States they’re probably going to go to Mexico and then come in through the border knowing that Biden will just let everybody in.”
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BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis announces Florida agents have interdicted a vessel that had 25 suspected illegal aliens from Haiti
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&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1768653710047977715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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A 26-year-old Haitian man, who reportedly entered the U.S. under the Biden administration’s migrant parole program, was charged Thursday with raping a 15-year-old girl at a Massachusetts hotel that is being used as a migrant shelter.
Cory Alvarez was arraigned on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to aggravated rape of a child. Sources told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/haitian-migrant-charged-rape-15-year-old-girl-entered-controversial-parole-program-sources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> that the Haitian man flew to John F. Kennedy International Airport last June and was sponsored by someone in New Jersey as part of President Joe Biden’s <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-parole-biden-administration-1-million-migrants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parole program</a>, which has allowed over one million migrants to come to the U.S. from countries such as Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ukraine, and Afghanistan.
Police responded to a report of a sexual assault on Wednesday evening at the Comfort Inn in Rockland, Massachusetts, which is currently being used as part of a state and federal program to house migrant families, Boston 25 <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/man-living-rockland-hotel-housing-migrants-charged-with-child-rape-da-says/VXO4QFDEGFDDLN5E3Y5PWDL3FE/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The teenage girl, who is also a Haitian, told police through an interpreter that she went to Alvarez’s room so he could help her with her tablet before he forced himself on her.
“I asked him to leave me alone, but he didn’t stop,” the 15-year-old girl told authorities.
Alvarez is being held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for March 22, according to Boston 25. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has also placed an immigration detainer on Alvarez.
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BREAKING: Per DHS sources to me &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/GriffJenkins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GriffJenkins</a>, the Haitian man arrested for raping a 15 y/o disabled girl at a migrant hotel in Massachusetts Wednesday night came to the U.S. via the Biden admin’s parole program for Haitians, which allowed him to fly into JFK airport in NYC… <a href="https://t.co/Kt4c4hU4Qn">pic.twitter.com/Kt4c4hU4Qn</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1768602198546808871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Last week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from more than 20 Republican-led states challenging the Biden administration’s migrant parole program. The states argued that the migrant program forced them to spend millions of dollars on health care, education, and public safety, but U.S. District Judge Drew B. Tipton said the states did not show they had suffered any financial harm because of the program, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-biden-haiti-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela-trial-fac9dc853231ba04ff0ea4e7442057ef" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Tipton clarified, however, that “In reaching this conclusion, the Court does not address the lawfulness of the Program.”
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As Haiti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elite-marine-team-deployed-to-protect-u-s-embassy-in-haiti-as-country-descends-into-chaos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">descends into chaos</a> and gangs fight for control of the country, many are concerned about more Haitians fleeing the country and attempting to get into the U.S. Earlier this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1767940653822922965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> National Guard troops and state law enforcement agencies to secure the state’s coast and prevent Haitians from landing boats and entering the country illegally.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is considering using Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, which is roughly 200 miles from Haiti, as a processing center for the anticipated influx of Haitian migrants.
“We are clear-eyed that economic, political, and security instability are key drivers for migrants around the world. We are closely monitoring the situation and the routes frequently used by migrants to reach our borders and at this time, irregular migration flows through the Caribbean remain low,” a National Security Council spokesperson told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/biden-administration-guantanamo-bay-haitian-migrants/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>.

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Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in an apparent attempt to show his empathy for the suffering of the Haitian people, claimed that New Yorkers call their city the “Port-au-Prince of America.”
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We call New York City the Port-Au-Prince of America. We feel the pain our Haitian neighbors feel as the situation grows dire. 
To the people of Haiti and our own Haitian community here in New York City, know that we stand with you today and always.
&mdash; Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1767927779364860256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Common nicknames for New York include: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World, The Center of the Universe, The City That Never Sleeps, The Empire City, The Five Boroughs, and Metropolis (the latter coined from the Superman comic books.)
Adams’ claim elicited guffaws on social media and a Community Note that stated simply, “No one calls New York City the Port-au-Prince of America.”
Sample responses from social media included, “&#8217;I’ve lived here my entire life and I&#8217;ve never heard anyone say that,” “Who the f*** has ever said that?”, “Two minutes ago you were crying about the strain all the illegal immigrants were putting on your city and blaming Texas,” “Oh yes, can’t go a day without hearing NYC is Port Au Prince of America or that Cincinnati is the Istanbul of the Midwest,” “No one has ever called NYC that until you did just now. Literally no one. Like, ever. Never has anyone ever called it that until this tweet. You, sir, are a terrible and blatant liar,” and “Is it because both are s*** holes? Because then, yes.”
But Adams may have a point with his comparison.
“165,000 Haitians have fled their homes, driven out by gang violence, with nowhere else to go in Port-au-Prince,” a report <a href="https://www.thestkittsnevisobserver.com/haitis-homeless-desperate-after-entire-neighborhoods-destroyed-by-armed-gangs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> in June 2023.  In November 2023, 92,879 homeless people slept each night in New York City’s main municipal shelter system, the Coalition for the Homeless <a href="https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/basic-facts-about-homelessness-new-york-city/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Haiti’s crime rate has more than doubled since last year, as the Caribbean island nation faces widespread insecurity and gang violence, new data has revealed,” CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/03/21/exp-haiti-gang-violence-rampage-port-au-prince-live-032103pseg1-cnni-world.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in April 2023. “More than 1,600 incidents including homicide, rape, kidnapping, and lynchings were reported in the first quarter of 2023.”
New York City had 386 homicides and 974 shootings in 2023, <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nypd-crime-shootings-murders/14259597/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Police Department. And then there’s the perennial garbage in the city. As The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/upshot/nyc-trash-rules.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> earlier this month: “Consider the ubiquitous New York trash bag. It tears. It leaks. It smells. It multiplies on the sidewalk, attracting carryout clamshells and still-full coffee cups tossed on top until it all melds into a sticky mess. That mess feeds rats, blocks sidewalks and spills into the street.”
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In Port-au-Prince, “Waste is piling up because of the capital city’s <a href="https://globalpressjournal.com/americas/haiti/young-haitians-combat-countrys-solid-waste-problem/">underfunded waste management services</a> and a lack of landfills that are close enough to where people live and the waste is generated. The entire country has only one landfill to serve more than 11.3 million Haitians, located North of Port-Au-Prince,” Caroline Attaway. a Development Officer for University Advancement at Georgia College &amp; State University, <a href="https://medium.com/@GSPIAe_eBlog/could-incentivizing-waste-pickers-prolong-lives-in-port-au-prince-haiti-ffaf5b4a955a#:~:text=Waste%20is%20piling%20up%20because,of%20Port%2DAu%2DPrince." target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> in 2023.

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An elite team of Marines has been dispatched to Haiti to help defend the U.S. embassy there after the country&#8217;s prime minister announced his resignation and gang violence continues to spiral out of control.
The Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team (F.A.S.T.) team was dispatched as chaos reigns in the streets and Jimmy &#8220;Barbecue&#8221; Cherizier, a former policeman-turned-gangster, called for a &#8220;bloody revolution.&#8221; Nearly two dozen gangs control an estimated 80% of Haiti&#8217;s capital, Port-au-Prince, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13191889/Pentagon-sends-anti-terrorism-Marines-Haiti-beef-security-U-S-embassy-country-brink-civil-war.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Barbecue&#8221; is the leader of one of the prominent gang coalitions that have emerged in the city.
&#8220;At the request of the Department of State, the U.S. Southern Command deployed a U.S. Marine Fleet-Anti-terrorism Security Team (FAST) to maintain strong security capabilities at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and conduct relief in place for our current Marines, a common and routine practice worldwide. The U.S. Embassy remains open, and limited operations continue, focused on assistance to US citizens and supporting Haitian led efforts to secure a peaceful transition of power,&#8221; a statement from the U.S. Southern Command said, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/more-us-marines-deployed-to-help-secure-us-embassy-in-haiti/">according</a> to CBS News.
The U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-evacuates-embassy-staff-in-haiti-as-yet-another-country-erupts-in-turmoil-under-biden">evacuated</a> non-essential personnel from the embassy over the weekend as violence in the country&#8217;s capital escalated. Thousands of criminals poured into the streets after gangs stormed the Port-au-Prince jail. They have also attacked the capital&#8217;s airport and engaged in firefights with cops.
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haiti-prime-minister-ariel-henry-resigning-once-transitional-council-formed/">agreed</a> to resign on Tuesday after he was unable to re-enter the country because the violence closed the country&#8217;s airports. He is currently in Puerto Rico.
Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) organized a mission that helped 10 Americans who were working at an orphanage in the capital evacuate the country, the Daily Mail reported.
Mills slammed the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;pattern of abandonment&#8221; of U.S. citizens, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/us-news/congressman-evacuates-10-americans-from-crime-ravaged-haiti-slams-biden-for-pattern-of-abandonment/">telling</a> Fox News Digital, &#8220;This mission reiterates a disturbing reality under President Biden&#8217;s leadership: American lives are continually jeopardized. I have led missions to rescue Americans multiple times when Joe Biden has deserted them.&#8221;
Mills previously helped Americans escape Afghanistan during Biden&#8217;s 2021 withdrawal and helped nearly three dozen Americans get out of Israel in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack in late 2023, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/us-news/congressman-evacuates-10-americans-from-crime-ravaged-haiti-slams-biden-for-pattern-of-abandonment/">noted</a>.
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&#8220;Yet again, this group was left behind by Biden and his State Department after requesting their help in-country,&#8221; he added.
Nearly 1,200 people have been killed as a result of the violence raging in the Caribbean nation, according to CBS News.

HAITI-POLITICS-UNREST-DEMONSTRATION

Elite Marine Team Deployed To Protect U.S. Embassy In Haiti As Country Descends Into Chaos

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Marines

Yesterday I went into some detail about the unfolding crisis in Haiti. The prime minister is stranded in Puerto Rico and has now <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68541349">officially resigned</a>.
The streets are now ruled by a warlord named &#8220;Barbecue.&#8221; Police officers are nowhere to be found, even at the country&#8217;s national prison complex, where the doors are currently wide open.
All of this is relevant mainly because, for years, leftists have pretended Haiti is salvageable. They didn&#8217;t do that simply to contradict Donald Trump, although that&#8217;s a big part of it. Their primary motivation is to transform this country into Haiti. Unchecked, one-way migration is one way to do that. Another way is to adopt Haiti&#8217;s approach to policing — which is to say, to stop policing entirely. Beginning last year, criminals in Haiti understood that they could commit crimes with impunity. No one would even attempt to arrest them.
As Human Rights Watch put it in a recent report, &#8220;There have been no prosecutions or convictions of those responsible for killings, kidnappings, and sexual violence, or their supporters, since the start of 2023.&#8221;
That&#8217;s what a total stand down of law and order looks like. It was telegraphed, and as expected, anarchy followed. So you have to wonder — especially in the aftermath of BLM and &#8220;defunding the police&#8221; — how long until something like that happens here? How long until criminals in America understand that they can commit serious crimes, and no police officers will even bother to show up?
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If you&#8217;ve followed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pittsburgh-police-cuts-staff-between-3-7-a-m-no-longer-respond-if-not-in-progress-emergency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the news</a> out of Pittsburgh this week, you know that this moment is already here. The city has announced that police officers will simply stop responding to the vast majority of crimes — including burglary and harassment — as long as there&#8217;s no &#8220;in-progress emergency.&#8221; Additionally, between 3:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m, as few as 20 police officers will be on-duty to cover the entire city of 300,000 people. This is as close to a real-life implementation of the Purge as we’ve seen. Watch:
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Those crimes include thefts, harassment, criminal mischief, burglary alarms, etc.
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What this means is that, if someone breaks into your house in Pittsburgh, and you call 911, they won&#8217;t come. Even if your alarm is going off, and your alarm company is notifying the authorities, they don&#8217;t care. The police chief in Pittsburgh has clarified that for burglaries, under this new policy, they need some sort of &#8220;second verification&#8221; in order to ensure that the burglar is on the premises at that moment, before police will even consider driving out to your house.
In other words, it&#8217;s like logging into your bank account. They need two-factor authentication so that they can really be sure that there&#8217;s a burglary going on. Your alarm just counts as one factor. Additional factors, according to the police chief, could include video footage of the burglar in your house. Or it could be a photo of broken glass with the burglar standing around next to it. Or perhaps you can get the burglar to pose for a picture holding that day’s newspaper. Maybe you can take a quick selfie video with the burglar where he looks at the camera and says, ‘Hey folks, just here burglarizing this home real quick. Sorry for the inconvenience!’ But outside of situations like that, the Pittsburgh police will just tell you to leave a report with their answering machine.
Of course, if the burglar is smart, and breaks into your home between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m., then it probably doesn&#8217;t matter even if you have the selfie video of the burglars in your home — because there will be only 20 cops in the entire city who can get to you. So the people ransacking your home can take their time. This has all been announced, publicly, by the city of Pittsburgh. You have to wonder why anyone in the city would bother paying taxes at this point — especially since the government in Pittsburgh created this problem in the first place.
After the George Floyd riots of 2020, the mayor implemented a two-year freeze on all police hiring. That&#8217;s not an overstatement. The mayor at the time, Bill Peduto, just shut down the police academies.
As CBS News reported in 2022, &#8220;The sound of bagpipes graduating a new police class hasn&#8217;t been heard in years.&#8221; To justify this decision, Peduto appeared on NBC News, where for some reason he answered questions from a bunch of college students. Watch:
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It&#8217;s an amazing clip to watch in retrospect. The mayor tells this random college student that emotions are very high post-George Floyd. He recognizes that everyone&#8217;s not exactly thinking rationally. But instead of suggesting that maybe it&#8217;s a bad idea to shut down police academies, he basically issues a threat. He says that &#8220;police reforms&#8221; — by which he means gutting the police department — are going to happen one way or the other. The only thing the police union can do is get on board to minimize the damage, on the road to creating this utopia in Pittsburgh. Four years later, we see exactly what that utopia looks like.
If you listen to officials in Pittsburgh, they&#8217;ll offer another excuse for the breakdown of law and order in their city. They&#8217;ll say they simply can&#8217;t afford police officers. They&#8217;ll tell you that tax revenues are down because, post-COVID, a lot of downtown office space is vacant. The value of the buildings has plummeted. That&#8217;s true, to an extent. The city has been taking in less revenue because of lockdown policies, which were implemented by the city of Pittsburgh. But as an explanation for why there are no police in Pittsburgh anymore, it doesn&#8217;t make any sense. You can take one look at Pittsburgh&#8217;s budget and come to the conclusion that there&#8217;s a lot of waste that could be trimmed in order to put more officers on the street.
For example, let&#8217;s take a look at Pittsburgh&#8217;s fiscal year 2022 operating budget. There&#8217;s more than $700,000 budgeted for salaries for something called the &#8220;Office of Equity.&#8221; In all, the office&#8217;s budget exceeds a million dollars. Among other things, that taxpayer money is used to pay an &#8220;executive director&#8221; for the &#8220;gender equity commission,&#8221; who makes $76,000. It includes a &#8220;chief equity officer&#8221; making $120,000. It also includes unspecified money for &#8220;immigration engagement,&#8221; so that when people arrive in Pittsburgh from Haiti, they know where to file for welfare benefits. And by the way, it&#8217;s not just the &#8220;Office of Equity&#8221; at Pittsburgh that employs equity officers. The office of the city clerk also has an &#8220;equity, diversity, and inclusion policy analyst,&#8221; who makes something like $62,000 a year.
There&#8217;s also millions of dollars for the office of city planning, including hundreds of thousands of dollars devoted to saving the climate. That includes tens of thousands of dollars for so-called &#8220;climate resilience analysts,&#8221; like this woman:
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That video is from several years ago. Not to spoil anything, but the city of Pittsburgh&#8217;s &#8220;climate action plan&#8221; has not done anything to address alleged climate change in any way. We know that because, even if you removed the entire city of Pittsburgh from the planet — which, as a Baltimore Ravens fan, I wouldn’t object to nothing about the climate would change. Even using the most unhinged, eco-nutcase model you can find, there is no conceivable way that the city of Pittsburgh can &#8220;address climate change.&#8221; But they hired useless employees like this person anyway, to categorize all of Pittsburgh&#8217;s various &#8220;greenhouse gas emissions.&#8221; Apparently that was more important than hiring police officers, in a city that&#8217;s down to fewer than two dozen cops in the middle of the night.
And this is just scratching the surface. Pittsburgh also has an “LGBTQIA+ Commission,&#8221; which was budgeted tens of thousands of dollars a year. That commission has apparently done nothing in three years. According to the outlet Public Source:
<blockquote>Pittsburgh’s LGBTQIA+ Commission, created in 2020 by former Mayor Bill Peduto, started with the promise of action on behalf of the queer community of Pittsburgh. Three years later, external displays of action have been on the sparse side — even at the admission of some of its members. &#8230; While some fruitful conversations have been held to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community within the city and the commission has made strides on developing its internal structure, the commission’s 20 meetings thus far have lacked public engagement and it hasn’t conducted a single study.</blockquote>
This is a commission that was established around the time that the police academies were closed. And they&#8217;re completely dysfunctional. They&#8217;ve wasted all that time and money. It goes without saying that the city could shut all of these &#8220;equity&#8221; initiatives down without causing any harm to any resident of the city of Pittsburgh. If they had done that, they could&#8217;ve saved millions of dollars over the past three years. And when you&#8217;re down to 20 police officers, millions of dollars is a lot of money. It can double the size of your police force. But instead of cutting all of this garbage, the leaders of Pittsburgh chose to cut policing, and fund &#8220;equity&#8221; instead.
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One of the many ironies here is that &#8220;equity&#8221; entails an obsessive concern with &#8220;safety.&#8221; Leftists are always telling us that certain groups are &#8220;unsafe&#8221; and how we need to make them feel safer at every opportunity. But they always mean &#8220;safety&#8221; in some kind of esoteric, ambiguous sense. Actual practical, physical safety isn&#8217;t valued at all — at least not the safety of the average family affected by this insanity.
This has gone on for years, and major cities have become much more dangerous as a result. It&#8217;s so bad that Taco Bell just had to close all of their indoor dining facilities in Oakland. That&#8217;s a pretty stark level of civilizational decline, when you can&#8217;t even keep Taco Bell open.
But very soon, Pittsburgh will reach an even deeper level of decay. Residents won&#8217;t be worried about climate change, or LGBTQ justice. Instead, they&#8217;ll be worried about their safety, in the literal sense. That&#8217;s because, three years after Pittsburgh&#8217;s mayor promised &#8220;reforms,&#8221; change has finally arrived. And particularly between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m., everyone living in Pittsburgh will know exactly what that change looks like.

Shooting At Pittsburgh House Party Leaves 9 Injured And 2 Dead

The City Of Pittsburgh Takes ‘The Purge’ As An Instruction Manual

The City Of Pittsburgh Takes 'The Purge' As An Instruction Manual

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Pittsburgh

Police Reform

Readers Pass

The news out of Haiti the past few weeks has not been very good.
This should come as no great surprise, as the news out of Haiti has not been very good for the past 200 years or so. It is, of course, one of the most miserable and destitute places in the world: 60% of the country lives below the poverty line. The average life expectancy is under 65. I could go on listing depressing statistics, but that’s probably not necessary.
And yet somehow, recently, life in Haiti has gotten even worse. The situation has sunk below Haiti’s already extremely low baseline. If you lived in the country, you would right now be pining for the old days when you were merely miserable, starving, and destitute. That was far better than what’s happening now.
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What’s happening now is that the Haitian government, to the extent that it ever existed, has collapsed. Violent gangs have taken over the country and are prowling the streets executing people at random. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/09/haiti-corpses-gangs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes the scene</a>:
<blockquote>On a ride through the gang-controlled streets of Haiti’s capital on Friday, past an improvised barricade, the motorcycle taxi reached a crossroad. First came the smell — of something burning. Then, the sight: a corpse, charred black, lying in the middle of street, its bones and feet sticking out of the pile of ash. The night before, Jimmy Boursiquot, a carpenter who lives nearby, heard two gunshots. Peering carefully out his window, checking his watch — it was 8:24 p.m. — he saw two men drive away, leaving the body behind, not far from a university administration office and one of Haiti’s largest telecommunications companies. A few hours later, he said, the men returned and burned the remains. The streets of Port-au-Prince reek with the stench of the dead. It’s a grisly new marker of the violence and dysfunction in this beleaguered Caribbean nation of 11 million people. In the absence of a functioning state, violent armed gangs have taken control of more than 80 percent of the capital, the United Nations estimates. Gunfire crackles at all hours. Residents who dare leave their homes stumble across bodies that have been left where they fell. Port-au-Prince reached a high of 92 degrees on Friday. The smell of decaying corpses, human rights activists say, has driven some people from their homes.</blockquote>
It’s a terrible picture. And it only gets worse, the more you look. Consider the guy who has now seized control of the country — a notorious gang leader going by the moniker “Barbecue” — who has launched a war against the remnants of the Haitian government while attacking prisons and freeing thousands of violent criminals in order to then recruit them into his gang. And if you’re assuming that there must be some horrific reason why the Haitian warlord has been nicknamed “Barbecue,” you’re right. It’s exactly what you think. Reportedly, he earned the name due to his habit of setting people on fire. In fact, Barbecue has been basically the de facto leader of Haiti for a while now. This is in spite of the fact that, nearly a year and a half ago, the UN leveled sanctions on Barbecue. 
As NBC News reported at the time, it was a move that was supposed to bring about “more peaceful days”:
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Well, shockingly, that didn’t work out. The sternly worded letters to the third world gang leader named Barbecue somehow didn’t have any noticeable effect. Barbecue didn’t listen to the UN press conferences and read their letters and say, “Gee, you know what? These folks are right. I should stop brutalizing innocent people.” That was not his response, which no doubt came as a shock to the UN.
Now things have gotten so bad that, according to reports circulating all over social media, the violent gangs terrorizing Haiti have even resorted to cannibalism. That’s the thing about Haiti. If it has proven anything over the past couple of centuries, it’s that a bad situation can always get worse, and then the worse situation can get even worse than that.
Unfortunately for us, here in the United States, Haiti is a violent, war-torn failed state that happens to sit not very far from our own borders. Which means that we have already been taking in thousands of illegal Haitian migrants every year, and those numbers are only going to go up.
How many of the illegal Haitian migrants are members of the brutal gangs terrorizing their country? How many are escaped prisoners? Now we must even apparently ask: how many are cannibals? These are questions that the Biden Administration certainly won’t concern itself with, and hasn’t concerned itself with. We will be called to open our arms to the downtrodden Haitians, even if that means our arms will be chopped off and eaten for breakfast.
But that’s not the point we’re focusing on right now. As important as the point is. Instead, recent events in Haiti have prompted a bit of a trip down memory lane for some conservatives on social media, who have reminded us about one of the many frivolous, media-invented controversies of the first Trump Administration.
You may recall that, way back in 2018, the Left became outraged and deeply offended when it was reported that President Trump had referred to Haiti as a “s***hole” — or craphole, as I will call it. According to reports at the time, Trump referred to Haiti and other third world countries as crapholes during a discussion on immigration. It was one of the many times when Trump reportedly said something that every normal American either has said, or would say.
Certainly, no normal person, if they heard someone in their everyday life call Haiti a crap hole, would respond with shock and horror. “How could you say that about Haiti?! It’s a wonderful place!” That’s not how any normal person would respond. But the media is not comprised of normal people which is why there was a lengthy outrage cycle which was over the top and histrionic even by the Left’s current standards.
The media proceeded to spend several days defending the beauty and majesty of the great nation of Haiti. There were many headlines like this from Mother Jones: “Despite It All, Haiti Is Still Not a Craphole.” And this from the Washington Post: “This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a ‘Craphole.’” By the way, the title of the Washington Post article I read at the start of the monologue is: “Haitians shot dead in street and there’s no one to take the corpses away.” What a difference a few years makes. I wonder: can we call Haiti a craphole now, or would that still be “ignorant”?
But back to 2018, where this became a subject of discussion and condemnation on the late night alleged comedy shows as well. Here was Stephen Colbert registering his objections:
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Yes. Amen. Donald Trump isn’t the president of Haiti. Instead the de facto president of Haiti is a genocidal warlord named Barbecue. And he’s so much better than Donald Trump. After all, Donald Trump will use vulgar language that hurts your feelings. Barbecue will hack you into pieces and throw your mangled body into a bonfire. Which, I’m sure we can all agree, is greatly preferable to having our feelings hurt.
But Colbert wasn’t the only late night host sticking up for Haiti. Conan O’Brien was on the case as well:
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Absolutely. Lovely people. Even the cannibals. They are the loveliest cannibals the world has ever seen. And Conan didn’t stop there. 
He then embarked on a campaign to defend Haiti’s reputation. It was a campaign that even had its own merchandise:
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Just as a general rule here, if you can “make a difference” for a country by selling t-shirts, that’s a pretty good indication that it is not, by any reasonable metric, a great country. A second general rule is this: if a country is a failed state stricken by mass poverty and run by criminal gangs led by a guy named Barbecue, it is not a great country. It is not a great country now. And it wasn’t back then. Despite the claims of leftists who are so determined to oppose Donald Trump on every single point that they were even baited into pretending that Haiti is a utopian paradise.
My dream is that, if Trump wins in 2024, the first thing he’ll do is declare that it’s not a good idea to get into a rocket ship and fly directly into the Sun, so that Stephen Colbert will try to prove him wrong on that point too. “Oh yeah? You think the Sun isn’t a good place to visit? At least Donald Trump isn’t president of the Sun,” Colbert will declare moments before being incinerated.
Not to belabor a point that normal people don’t need explained in the first place, but, no, Haiti is not a great country. The word “great” in this context may have some ambiguity to it — people can define great in different ways — but at the most basic level a great country is one where its people are generally able to thrive and prosper. “Great” can mean more than that, but it must mean at least that. It is incoherent to describe a country where almost nobody prospers as “great.” It is much more coherent to describe such a country as a craphole. Indeed, you can usually detect the craphole countries, and distinguish them from the great countries, because people from the craphole countries are always trying to get into the great countries. It never goes the other way around. There has never been a flood of illegal migrants from the United States going into Haiti. The flood has always gone the other way.
And of course that brings us back to the most important point in all of this. The end result, the self-fulfilling prophesy we might say, which is that America becomes less great the more that it allows unchecked immigration from the very not-great countries. We are not a craphole like Haiti. But import enough of Haiti into this country, and we might eventually get there.
Then we will be the utopia that Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien dream of. Then maybe they’ll wear “America is Great Already” hats. And walk proudly down the street in that attire. Before they are descended upon by the cannibal hordes and promptly consumed. That’s what greatness is to them, apparently.

Haiti Experiences Surge Of Gang Violence

Haiti Descends Into Chaos As Our Borders Remain Wide Open

Conan O'Brien

Donald Trump

gangs

Stephen Colbert

Violence

The U.S. Military was forced to evacuate non-essential personnel from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/haiti" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Haiti</a> over the weekend as violent gangs tried to take control of the country&#8217;s capital of Port-au-Prince.
&#8220;At the request of the Department of State, the U.S. military conducted an operation to augment the security of the U.S. Embassy at Port-au-Prince, allow our Embassy mission operations to continue, and enable non-essential personnel to depart,&#8221; U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
The unstable island nation is on the verge of collapse after gangs stormed the Port-au-Prince jail and freed thousands of criminals back onto the country&#8217;s streets. The small, impoverished country has been devastated by everything from major earthquakes to political assassinations.
The gangs have attacked the country&#8217;s main international airport and police stations, looted ports and buildings, and blocked shipments of humanitarian aid.
&#8220;The current security situation in Haiti is unpredictable and dangerous,&#8221; the U.S. State Department said in a statement. &#8220;We are aware that there are few or no commercial options to depart Haiti safely at this time. As they become available, we urge U.S. citizens to take advantage of them.&#8221;
&#8220;The U.S. Embassy’s ability to assist U.S. citizens is severely limited,&#8221; the statement added.
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The Biden administration urged any Americans in Haiti to avoid crows, keep a low profile, be prepared to shelter in place for an extended period of time at any moment, avoid being outside at night, and monitor local media for information about areas where violence, demonstrations, or disruptions are reported to be happening.
The U.S. has been forced to evacuate personnel around the world numerous times under President Joe Biden as adversaries, terrorists, and criminals feel emboldened by the weak leadership emanating out of Washington. Examples include <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/15/politics/us-embassy-kabul-afghanistan/index.html">Afghanistan</a>, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-united-states-europe-russia-kyiv-ff41abf90650aa5f456cbb6aafa4c5b3">Ukraine</a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/22/politics/us-diplomatic-personnel-sudan/index.html">Sudan</a>, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us-halts-operations-embassy-belarus-oks-evacuation-us-embassy-moscow-2022-02-28/">Belarus</a>, and more.
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The wife of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was indicted by a judge this week in connection with her husband&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-haitian-president-assassinated-in-hateful-inhumane-and-barbaric-act-official-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder</a> in 2021.
Haitian Judge Walther Voltaire indicted former first lady Martine Moïse, the country’s former prime minister, police chief, and dozens of others, including several former Colombian soldiers, in the case.
The indictment accuses Martine Moïse of knowing about the plot and being complicit in it, according to The Wall Street Journal, which noted that there was no direct evidence of her being involved. The judge said that he found she made contradictory statements and that other defendants said she wanted to be president after her husband was dead.
Martine Moïse&#8217;s lawyer, Paul Turner, slammed the conspiracy to murder charge as a sham and said that the judge was politically motivated.
“These trumped-up charges by a kangaroo court against political opponents are a Stalinesque move by a wannabe dictator,” Turner said. “It’s saddening to see these tactics deployed against Mrs. Moïse.”
Gedeon Jean, the director of the Center for Human Rights Analysis and Research in Port-au-Prince, said: “The judge didn’t conduct a serious investigation. His work has been very limited and didn’t really explore substantial elements such as the motives behind the killing and who paid for it.”
The situation in Haiti has gone from really bad to horrific following Jovenel Moïse&#8217;s death as violent gangs have seized control of most of the country&#8217;s capital and have kidnapped or killed thousands of people. The country has no president or elected national officials, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/world/americas/haiti-assassinated-president-wife-accused.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
A criminal investigation led by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI led to 11 men being arrested, many of whom were in Florida, in connection with the assassination.
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The men arrested were Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, 50, a Colombian national and U.S. permanent resident of Miami; Antonio Intriago 59, a Venezuelan-American of Miami; Walter Veintemilla, 54, of Weston; and Frederick Bergmann, 64, of Tampa, according to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-florida-men-arrested-plot-kill-haitian-president-grand-jury-returns-indictment-against" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOJ</a>. Others charged in the case included James Solages, 37; Joseph Vincent, 57; German Alejandro Rivera Garcia, 44; Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, 43; Rodolphe Jaar, 49; and Joseph Joel John, 51.

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