• robocall@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If the US would stop intervening in Haiti and let them run their own country, maybe so many of them wouldn’t have to apply for asylum in the US.

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      2 months ago

      The question of why specific immigrants are here isn’t relevant to the topic of how they should be treated once they’re legally here. Some are here bc of bad US foreign policy, others aren’t, but all should be treated with respect.

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      2 months ago

      Best to look at history. The US hasn’t really intervened in Haiti that often and when we did it was a failure. Many different groups have tried. Currently, it’s Kenyans

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        2 months ago

        We also blew our chance to support Haiti back when they first revolted because we didn’t want our slaves to get any ideas.

        As always, American Ideals are based on a lie.

        Haiti was punished by the West for daring to fight against their oppressors, and we all, collectively, never stopped trying to crush them.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt

        Now they have the failed state which the West absolutely caused, and scum in this country blame them for the situation they were put in.

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          2 months ago

          I think it’s great you blame the US when it was a French colony and the only Caribbean country that had to buy their way out of slavery.