The Biden administration is seeking guards fluent in Haitian Creole to staff a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – but it is far too small to have an impact on the thousands of Haitian migrants currently camped in Texas.
According to an NBC News report on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a contract solicitation last week for “at least 50” guards, 10% of whom should be fluent in “Spanish and Haitian Creole,” to be available at 24 hour’s notice for work at a detention facility in the US-controlled enclave on the island.
The report spread like wildfire on social media, prompting incredulous responses from all sides of the political spectrum.
“This cannot happen. This cannot… happen. I am so, so angry right now. Shame on you Joe Biden,” tweeted immigration activist Erika Andiola, commenting on the NBC article.
“Democrats went from WE WILL CLOSE GITMO (2007) to LET’S USE GITMO FOR HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS (2021),” journalist Glenn Greenwald pointed out.
So sending the migrants to Gitmo is humane but using horse reins is “worse than slavery,” said conservative talk show host Larry O’Connor.
This was a reference to Democrat outrage over photos of mounted Border Patrol agents “whipping” the Haitians crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, posted earlier this week by an activist. Though the agents did not have whips, and there was no evidence to even suggest they struck anyone with the split reins used to steer their horses, the White House and the DHS called for an investigation.
