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Title: State, Palm Beach County agencies gearing up for possible waves of refugees from Haiti
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URL Source: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/s ... r-179488.html?cxtype=ynews_rss
Published: Jan 14, 2010
Author: Michael LaForgia
Post Date: 2010-01-14 21:21:52 by Jethro Tull
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Comments: 24
As aid workers dug through the rubble of Haitian cities devastated by Tuesday's massive earthquake, county, state and federal agencies across South Florida were gearing up Thursday to accommodate anticipated waves of refugees from the battered Caribbean nation. In Palm Beach County, a mass-migration expert with the emergency management division was monitoring relief efforts, and emergency managers were readying for action if immigrants started coming ashore. "Any time you have an event like this," migration is a possibility, said Chuck Tear, Palm Beach County's emergency operations director. "We're continuing to monitor the situation and will provide support as it's requested." Tear's office on Thursday also was in contact with the Florida Emergency Operations Center, which partially activated on Wednesday and started cataloging resources to make available to Haiti. With its miles of coastline, Palm Beach County long has been a landing point for desperate immigrants, many of whom set out for Miami from the Bahamas and are carried north by the Gulf Stream. In May, at least 10 Haitians drowned after a boat carrying more than 30 migrants capsized in the waters between Bimini and Boynton Beach. Survivors told federal authorities they made their way to the Bahamas from Haiti and paid thousands of dollars to smugglers before risking the treacherous voyage. As local emergency managers planned for people who might make similar trips, Florida's social services agency was scrambling to make sure it was ready if called upon by the federal authorities. If the government decides to repatriate an estimated 45,000 American citizens who were living in Port-au-Prince when the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck, the Department of Children and Families would play a role, said Hiran Ruiz, DCF's director of refugee services. DCF workers would help newly arrived Americans with food stamps, tax enrollment and signing up for the Medicaid program, Ruiz said. The agency also would factor in the federal government's plan to deal with a mass-migration. If waves of refugees start landing on Florida's shores, DCF and federal immigration authorities would be responsible for any unattended children, Ruiz said. "We have a task force working on making sure we are ready to go should that be the case," he said. Homeland security specialists at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office on Thursday also were going over a mass-migration plan, which calls for a response from police and fire-rescue agencies from Martin to Monroe counties, said Teri Barbera, sheriff's office spokeswoman. In the Bahamas, a popular stop-over for Haitians bound for South Florida, the country's National Emergency Management Agency was taking steps Thursday to ready the islands for an influx of immigrants, said Capt. Stephen Russell, head of the agency. Bahamian emergency officials directed tents, bedding food and manpower to areas where they expect refugees to land, including Great Inagua. "We are getting ready now," Russell said, "even if the refugees don't come for two or three weeks."
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Yet another wave.
Great, more AID's-infested debris from the third-world, that's exactly what America needs right now.
_________________________________________________________________________ I think liberals should be lining up as sponsors for displaced Haitian families. Can we ping the Nest and see if anyone lives in a building with open units?
Not only that but Pat Robertson says they're all hexed by the devil himself. I'm sure Obama is going to use this event to inject some more diversity into AmeriKa.
Almost all of our major cities are now human cesspools because of minorities and "refugees". When chaos abounds they will be animals on the loose, then white America will see true and real racism, up close and personal.
In a move mirroring Operation Pedro Pan in the 1960s, Catholic Charities and other South Florida immigrant rights organizations are planning an ambitious effort to airlift possibly thousands of Haitian children left orphaned in the aftermath of Tuesday's horrific earthquake. "We will use the model we used 40 years ago with Pedro Pan to bring these orphans to the United States to give them a lifeline, a bright and hopeful future," Catholic Charities Legal Services executive director Randolph McGrorty said at a news conference in the offices of Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. "Given the enormity of what happened in Haiti, a priority is to bring these orphaned children to the United States," he said. Archdiocese of Miami officials and other local organizations have already identified a temporary shelter in Broward County to house the children, McGrorty said. He also said they had been in contact with the Obama administration to assist in bringing the children from Haiti with humanitarian visas. Operation Pedro Pan was launched on Dec. 26, 1960, as part of a successful clandestine effort to spirit children out of Fidel Castro's new Cuba as communist indoctrination was spreading into Catholic and private schools. By the time it ended 22 months later, the unique exodus of children — ages 5 to 17 — had brought 14,048 unaccompanied Cuban minors to America, with the secret help of the U.S. government, which funded the effort and supplied the visa waivers, and the Catholic church, which promised to care for the children. The late Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh, a Miami priest, was considered the father of the effort. As the children filtered into Miami and their numbers swelled, many went to live with relatives and family friends, but others were sent to Miami-Dade group homes and camps called Florida City, Kendall and Matecumbe. They were then relocated across the country to archdioceses in places like Nebraska, Washington and Indiana. There, they went to live in orphanages, foster homes and schools until their parents could find a way out of Cuba. Sometimes the separation was brief; sometimes it lasted years. _________________________________________________________________________ Sounds like travelogue
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
Why in the name of all that is good can't these 'people' ship their OWN asses THERE to 'give them a lifelikne, a bright and hopeful future' ??????? Freaking catlickers...I'm beginning to believe the ONLY one I respect in the WHOLE WORLD is Martin.
This is one event where we shouldn't spare money. Rebuild the entire nation if you have to, just keep them there.
who's Martin?
Yes. However, we could build for all of them, a home of their lifetime, and in five years it would like the slums of our American cities. Its not their color, its their culture.
Didn't Rahm Emanuel mention something about not letting a crisis go unused?? Obummer and his fellow travelers struck gold when this earthquake hit Haiti.
_________________________________________________________________________ "Freaking catlickers." LOL! And by Martin, do you mean Martin Lawrence?
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Its not their color, its their culture. so true. if you can't break them of their ridiculous, backward ass, ignorant and shameful CULTURE, you're dealing with nothing but SHIT...of course, they can enjoy their culture all they want down in haiti or wherever...on THEIR dime.
Nahh, I'm talking about one of my favorite all time posters on the Internets. pm
My olde neighborhood in NYC fifty years ago was one of beautiful homes, manicured lawns, one olde time black family. It has been a jungle for several years now. I would no longer dare drive thru the area. The black family was one of the first to leave.
It'd be cheaper to nuke'em
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
If anyone takes a look at that island from Google Earth, you can see CLEARLY the difference between Haiti, and The Dominican Republic. One is modern, lush, and green, and the other looks like a fucking toilet. Any explanations as to why? Oh yeah... One side of the island is run and populated by primitives. The other side, people who have at least tried to embrace the modern world. What should be done, is put an armed flotilla around the island, ship supplies there, and make the PEOPLE OF HAITI rebuild their own country.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
Habitat For Humanity. We can pitch Jimmy Carter out of a plane in a parachute, hammer in hand, and a C-130 can air-drop a load of lumber and nails for him to pound on 'til he croaks.
_________________________________________________________________________ You can't fix stupid
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
CF City here we come. What a mess.
Tell me about it. Sometimes, though, stupid is compounded by voodoo lunacy...
Is H4H privately funded ? If so, make sure they pay the bill...
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#3. To: Cynicom (#1)
#4. To: X-15 (#2)
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
In the Bahamas, a popular stop-over for Haitians bound for South Florida,
#8. To: X-15 (#6)
"We will use the model we used 40 years ago with Pedro Pan to bring these orphans to the United States to give them a lifeline, a bright and hopeful future," Catholic Charities Legal Services executive director Randolph McGrorty said at a news conference in the offices of Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#9. To: Flintlock (#7)
#10. To: Rotara (#8)
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
Rebuild the entire nation if you have to, just keep them there. Rebuild the entire nation if you have to, just keep them there.
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#13. To: Rotara (#8)
Freaking catlickers...I'm beginning to believe the ONLY one I respect in the WHOLE WORLD is Martin.
Lord Acton
#14. To: Cynicom (#11)
However, we could build for all of them, a home of their lifetime, and in five years it would like the slums of our American cities.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#15. To: James Deffenbach, christine (#13)
LOL
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#16. To: Rotara (#14)
on THEIR dime.
#17. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
Rebuild the entire nation if you have to
#18. To: Flintlock (#17)
more humane ?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#19. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#20. To: TommyTheMadArtist, Rotara (#19)
...make the PEOPLE OF HAITI rebuild their own country.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#21. To: Rotara (#18)
more humane ?
#22. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#23. To: Flintlock (#21)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#24. To: X-15 (#20)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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