He means an enormous amount to people here. |
He's a charismatic guy and people were trying to draft him. It's clear to us that he was arrested to keep him out of the way. |
It's a question of equal treatment. |
It's simply wrong to deport anyone to Haiti right now. This makes starkly apparent the decades-long discrimination of Haitian refugees by the U.S government. |
Nicaraguans. It's been given to Salvadorans. It's been given to Hondurans. It's been given to Liberians, Somalis, Sudanese and Burundi. Why aren't Haitians good enough for the same basic protections? |
Things have never been worse than they are now in Haiti -- the violence, the misery, the poverty. It has been called a failed state. It is simply wrong that anybody should be returned to Haiti at this point. |