Biden administration renews Temporary Protected Status for Haiti Nigger Moochers

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tps-for-haiti

New Emails Reveal Obama, Clintons Led Cover Up of Cholera
Outbreak in Haiti

In October 2010, United Nations Peacekeepers from Nepal infected
Haiti’s most significant river system with cholera, inciting the
first cholera outbreak in the country in over a century. So far,
the epidemic has taken over 10,000 lives, and some estimate that
the disease has infected up to 800,000 people. Those who caused
the outbreak—and covered it up—have not assumed assumed
responsibility, including the United Nations and several
government agencies under the Obama administration, such as
Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

Slate’s Jonathan Katz reports, “Nepal hadn’t invaded Haiti on
its own: Its troops were part of a multinational force created
by the Security Council, specifically at the behest of the
George W. Bush administration in 2004. For the 13 years since,
it has remained in Haiti largely to carry out U.S. policy—at a
discount.”

President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki
Haley, ducked questions about the outbreak in her confirmation
hearing, as did Obama’s UN ambassadors during his presidency.
The United Nations formally apologized and proposed a plan to
curb the outbreak. However, its members—including the United
States—refuse to provide the necessary funding for the plan.

New emails obtained from the Center for Disease Control reveal
that they suspected the origin of the outbreak was UN
Peacekeepers before news of the outbreak was even reported in
the press. In the emails, officials exercise damage control to
prevent backlash in Haiti toward the UN presence, citing
concerns from the National Security Council, which was chaired
by Obama at the time. The National Security Council spokesperson
refused to respond to Katz’s request for comment and the State
Department refused to disclose when or how they became aware of
the outbreak’s origin. It would take six years for the United
Nations to finally admit they were responsible.

The cholera outbreak occurred less than a year after Haiti was
devastated by a massive earthquake that killed over 100,000
people. The United States was already deeply involved in Haiti
and funding an important election in the country, which the
United States has been criticized for repeatedly. In 2011,
Hillary Clinton flew to Haiti as secretary of state and insisted
that the current president of Haiti step down in favor of the
U.S. backed candidate, Michel Martelly. Bill Clinton was
selected to serve as Haiti’s special envoy for the United
Nations, and his chief of staff was initially selected to serve
as Martelly’s prime minister.

Katz cited that officials at the Center for Disease Control
intentionally cast doubt as to the origin of the outbreak and
refused to conduct any investigation to confirm its source.
Meanwhile, UN soldiers destroyed evidence before other
scientists could investigate it. The State Department, under the
control of Hillary Clinton, told Katz, “U.S. government has not
taken a position on the validity of the underlying claims in
this particular case.”

In 2011, victims and families petitioning the United Nations to
fight the epidemic were ignored. Federal judges in the United
States threw out a lawsuit against the United Nations over the
organization’s absolute immunity from legal process, as
stipulated by a 1947 treaty. The United Nation’s inaction was
cited by a New York University professor who Katz interviewed as
legal advice coming from the State Department.

The United States’ poor response to this epidemic—not to mention
the controversies surrounding the Clinton Foundation—have earned
the Clintons a poor reputation among Haitians, including the
population of roughly 200,000 Haitian born immigrants in the
South Florida area who predominantly support Democrats. Though
many misleading claims have circulated about the Clintons‘
involvement in Haiti, the foreign policy that Hillary Clinton
championed during her tenure as secretary of state, in which she
viewed reconstruction as a business opportunity, contributed to
Haiti’s problems. Millions of dollars in relief funds went to
international non-government organizations and international
contractors instead of Haitian citizens, Haitian contractors and
Haitian government. The relief effort exploited the disaster by
divvying up funds among corporations. In October 2016, ABC News
reported that an Old Navy factory that the Clintons brought to
Haiti fell short of its promise of jobs, became riddled with
labor abuse, and the firm that helped fund the project “became a
Clinton Foundation donor and its owner invested in a startup
company owned by Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff.” A
separate investigation by ABC News found that top Clinton
Foundation officials prioritized offers of relief assistance
based on who was friends of Bill Clinton’s.

“Hillary Clinton once hoped that Haiti would be the shining
jewel of her foreign policy,” wrote Jonathan Katz for Politico
in 2015. “But far from transforming this poorest of countries,
many of the Clintons’ grandest plans and promises remain little
more than small pilot projects—a new set of basketball hoops and
a model elementary school here, a functioning factory there—that
have done little to alter radically the trajectory of the
country. Visiting some of their projects over the course of an
April research trip affirmed as much about their tenuousness as
about the limited benefits they’ve provided. Many of the most
notable investments the Clintons helped launch, such as the new
Marriott in the capital, have primarily benefited wealthy
foreigners and island’s ruling elite, who needed little help to
begin with.”

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