Caribbean Matters: What Haiti and Haitian Americans face post-election

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As conditions in Haiti worsen, the Haitian people cannot look for much if any useful help from the United States after electing Haitian hate spewer Donald Trump to the presidency.

Guns in the hands of gangs, many smuggled in from the U.S., have made a volatile situation worse. Our country has a piss poor track record with Haiti, dating back to the time of the American revolution. Our “interventions” have added to, not ameliorated, the situation there, creating more political chaos. Making matters even worse, their unfriendly Dominican neighbor, sharing the same island, continues to deport Haitians.

Here at home, Haitian Americans continue to be scapegoated, portrayed by liars like Vice President-elect JD Vance as pet eaters and criminals. We cannot absolve either political party from culpability in the failures of our Haitian immigration policies and the treatment of our Haitian American citizenry. And now that Trump is reportedly promoting Marco Rubio to secretary of state, questions are already being raised about what he will do that will help, not harm Haitians.