From the Stephen Miller playbook on immigration

 

Friend: the Biden administration promised a reversal of the anti-immigrant, white supremacist policies of the Trump era. 

The recent images of U.S. border officials on horseback, using what appeared to be whips to push back Haitian migrants in Texas, make it clear that they haven’t even come close. And the resignation by Daniel Foote, President Biden’s special envoy to Haiti, is proof that political momentum is building for long-overdue, critically needed changes to our immigration policy.

Because here’s what’s happening: Instead of meeting Haitians with humanitarian aid and care, the Biden administration is continuing the abhorrent pandemic-related border restrictions designed by Stephen Miller — violently shutting the door on people seeking relief from destruction and instability. 

Our voices matter and we must speak out against this cruel treatment and urge the administration to welcome people with dignity. If you agree, we need you to add your name to our petition now:

We can’t stand by and let people die or suffer. Will you add your name to our petition calling on the Biden administration to support, not deport, Haitian migrants and asylum seekers?

Haiti — still in the throes of political instability after the assassination of its president (by people the U.S. government previously trained) and natural disasters that battered the island earlier this summer — is in extreme crisis. Because of it, thousands of Haitian migrants and asylum seekers are seeking refuge at the southern U.S. border. 

Here’s the thing: what’s happening in Haiti and at the southern U.S. border is yet another consequence of U.S. foreign policy. We create crises around the world — and then refuse to face the fallout. And now we’ve created a dire humanitarian crisis at our southern border for no reason except bigotry and business as usual.

Enslaved people on the island won a revolution and Haiti gained its independence in 1804, but the United States didn’t recognize its legitimacy until 1861. Just a few decades later, the U.S. military formally occupied the island nation for 19 years, imposing martial law and committing massive human rights abuses. 

U.S. fingerprints in Haiti were ultimately on the coups, military interventions, exploitative economic policies, and, most recently, an assassination conducted by U.S.-trained Colombian mercenaries. Foote called out this history in his resignation letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, noting that “our policy toward Haiti remains deeply flawed” and “the cycle of international political interventions in Haiti has consistently produced catastrophic results.”

It’s time to make it clear that this pattern of failed U.S. foreign policies must end. We can replace it with one that allows the Haitian people to chart their own future and stops fueling the instability and displacement causing people to make the desperate decision to flee everything they know.

That’s where YOU come in.

Sign the petition to remind the Biden administration: It’s our moral responsibility to help Haitians in their time of need.

It isn’t too late to do things differently. Right now, more deportation flights are scheduled and more people are at risk of being returned to a country in crisis. 

We can help by calling on the Biden administration to end these cruel policies and instead expand humanitarian assistance and pathways to immigration — and your voice can make a difference.

Thank you for working for peace,

Stephen and the Win Without War team