If you compare the way President Biden treats Americans with the ways he treats citizens of foreign countries, it’s hard not to conclude that he doesn’t like us very much.
He’s preparing our base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to receive thousands of Haitian refugees so that they can be flown to the U.S.
Biden — who could secure our borders by reversing the same executive orders with which he opened them — refuses to take any actions that would do anything to secure our borders.
Hamas terrorists — since October 7 — have held several American hostages among the others they captured. At least five — Edan Alexander, 19, Omer Neutra, 22, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35 and Keith Siegel, 64. A sixth, Itay Chen, was confirmed to have died recently in Hamas’s hands. Hamas also, according to a Wall Street Journal report, holds the bodies of Americans Judy Weinstein Haggai and Gadi Haggai, who had also been taken hostage. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: The Coming Ramadan War)
All Biden has done to recover them is to pressure Israel to accept a cease-fire deal that would leave Hamas in control of the Gaza Strip.
Thirty-two Americans were among those Hamas slaughtered on October 7. They’re not even an afterthought to Biden & Co.
WNBA player Britney Griner was taken prisoner by the Russian government and released after several months. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was taken prisoner by the Putin regime and has been held for a year on phony charges. Biden has done nothing effective to get Gershkovich released. He’s more interested in pushing Congress for more aid to Ukraine.
Five American hostages were released from Iran in return for a $6 billion ransom payment last year. Others may still be in Iranian prisons.
At least a few of us remember the hundreds of Americans left behind in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal debacle Biden created in 2021. Have all of them been able to reach freedom? We’ll probably never know.
Which brings us to the mess in Haiti which Biden is handling in much the same manner that he handled Afghanistan.
President Biden has sent at least $680 million in aid to Haiti to help stabilize it and create some sort of government there, but it remains what former president Trump called it a few years ago: a s***hole country. Much — probably most or all — of the aid sent before and during the Biden administration has been siphoned off by government and other corruption.
There is no government in Haiti since its president resigned (from a safe distance) about a week ago. The country is run by brutal gang lords such as Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier. (READ MORE: Biden Blackmails Israel)
We don’t know how many Americans are stranded in Haiti. One group of American missionaries was begging to be evacuated. On Saturday, the State Department announced that it was chartering flights from Haiti and all people with U.S. passports were welcome to take one of the flights.
The big problem is that many Americans are in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and the flights are leaving from Cap-Haitien which is 130 miles away. State also said that travel to Cap-Haitien was at the traveler’s own risk. Why?
Why isn’t our citizens’ safety guaranteed by a few companies of Marines?
America has a long and troubled history of military intervention in Haiti and Nicaragua. Woodrow Wilson sent Marines to both countries in 1915 and we occupied Haiti until 1934. Wilson had a bizarre notion that it was up to him to remake the world after World War One, which you can read about in Margaret MacMillan’s masterpiece, Paris 1919. (The Nicaraguan intervention and all the fighting that took place in its jungles had one side benefit. It taught a particularly smart Marine named Lewis B. Puller how to fight the Japanese in World War Two.)
We shouldn’t invade Haiti with more force than is needed to evacuate U.S. citizens. But we should put enough troops in — preferably Marines — to force the issue and then get everyone, including our troops, out.
Meanwhile, what is Old Joe doing? He’s preparing our base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to receive thousands of Haitian refugees so that they can be flown to the U.S.
The Guantanamo Bay naval base — aka “Gitmo” — is about forty-five square miles in size. It has runways that can handle large military or commercial aircraft. It’s no tropical paradise. The rest of Cuba may be pretty nice, but Gitmo is scrub desert and rough seacoast.
About seventeen years ago, I visited the terrorist detention facility at Gitmo. It’s ten or twelve acres in size and, we hope, the terrorists held there won’t be mixed with the Haitians coming to America. But Biden is capable of anything including bringing the terrorists to the U.S., as both he and Obama want to close the Gitmo facility where they are held. (READ Flashback: Send Them to Gitmo, Mr. President)
We don’t know how many Haitians Biden plans to house at Gitmo temporarily but he will create a flow of Haitian refugees into the U.S. where Biden’s Homeland Security Department will release them into the general public.
There are already about 250,000 Haitian refugees in the U.S. and the new refugees will be added to them in unknown numbers. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is trying to interdict the flow of Haitians into his state. He may succeed in keeping them out of Florida but he won’t stop the influx that Biden has planned.
The safety and recovery of Americans held in the Gaza Strip, Russia, Iran, and Haiti should be a top priority for Biden. It would be for any Republican president, but Old Joe seems to have forgotten his duty to them. He is far more interested in bringing more foreign refugees and illegal immigrants into the U.S.
