During a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Department of Defense officials testified that they are preparing for the possibility of an influx of Haitian illegal immigrants coming to the US as the Caribbean nation has fallen into chaos.
Rep Matt Gaetz pressed the officials during the hearing to state “what we are doing to prepare for that wave and to ensure that these people are not paroled into the United States as the administration has done with people on the southern border, but instead are repatriated back at the dock at Port-au-Prince?”
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security Rebecca Zimmerman responded that the department is “doing a number of things to ensure that we’re keeping track of the situation and we’re prepared.”
“At the moment we have not yet seen large numbers, what we would characterize as a maritime mass migration, but we are alert to that possibility. I think you’re right that the driving conditions in Haiti could very well press more people.”
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