The San Diego Union-Tribune quoted senior fellow Michael Clemens in an article on Haitian immigration.
From the Article:
Some Haitian immigrants and their advocates have been protesting the U.S. government’s deportation plan, saying conditions in Haiti are still deadly.
“We are going to be sending people back to a situation where 10 percent of the population is still in tent cities, the cholera epidemic is still increasing and much of the capital is homeless,” said Michael Clemens, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, a research group in Washington. “The U.S. State Department thinks that conditions are so bad in Haiti that no U.S. citizen should travel there, yet we are going to have armed agents pushing people back there.”
He is working on a proposal that would offer a humanitarian entry to individuals from countries devastated by natural disasters such as the Haiti earthquake.
Read the Article.
