Turmoil in Haiti

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

If you have watched the national news you have noted a mass influx of people from Haiti crossing our southern border with some 16,000 more reportedly on the way. Why are those island people coming to immigrate to the United States? Haiti with the reputation of being the poorest nation in this hemisphere. I have a theory and it includes a memory of a terrible earthquake that devastated the island eleven and a half years ago. After the earthquake, our military went into the capital of Port Au Prince, repaired the major runway, and established air traffic control. All sorts of aircraft from countries in the region and civilian volunteers flew in to render aid to get the country livable again. The governor’s mansion was destroyed and the government, a dictatorship, did not function so our military stepped in to restore some semblance of order. I was reminded of the end of WWII when Germany was in a similar state of chaos.

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