Beto O'Rourke rips Biden response to Haitian migrant crisis in scathing op-ed
O'Rourke said decision to expel Haitians was 'antithetical to our values'
By Thomas Barrabi | Fox News
Democratic former Texas congressman and presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke ripped the Biden administration’s decision to expel thousands of Haitian refugees in a scathing op-ed on Friday, accusing the president and his advisors of failing to anticipate a crisis that was "years in the making."
The op-ed for El Paso Matters cited several recent events that prompted Haitian refugees to risk the journey to the United States, including Haiti’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010, the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. O’Rourke questioned why the Biden administration was "so slow to respond" to the situation.
"Unfortunately, stung by the outcry and caught without a plan, the Biden administration used a cynical Trump-era policy (known as Title 42) to immediately, and without due process, repatriate Haitians back to the country they left a decade ago, one whose streets are now ruled by gangs and criminals," O’Rourke wrote.
"So antithetical to our values and our common humanity, that the administration’s own envoy to Haiti resigned in disgust, writing that we shouldn’t be sending these refugees back to ‘a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs in control of daily life,’" O’Rourke added.
O’Rourke has indicated In recent days that he will run for governor of Texas in 2022.
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