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Haitian Immigration Would Be Bad, Actually, Even If They Were Vegans
Low human capital, high crime, high welfare use…

If you read Peter Brimelow’s Alien Nation, you’ll find that Haitian immigration was a problem even in the 90s, when then-President Bill Clinton was “forced to order the interception of boats carrying would-be illegal immigrants from Haiti on the high seas” because of America’s “inability to expel asylum seekers” [Alien Nation, p.27].

A. M. Rosenthal defended Haitian illegal immigration in the New York Times because he himself had been an illegal immigrant in the 1930s—brought by his father illegally from Canada in the 1930s, rather than fleeing Russia. Also defending Haitian illegals: “conservative” P. J. O’Rourke in the American Spectator, who compared Clinton’s defense of the US from Haitian rafters to the actions of the Ku Klux Klan. [Kleagle Clinton A meditation on the Caribbean refugee crisis, November 1994].

Rosenthal thought the Haitians were the same as the pre-1924 Ellis Island immigrants, and O’Rourke thought that just by illegally floating to America (endangering their own lives and the lives of their children) the Haitians had shown the gumption that America needs.

I’m not sure that either man had met a Haitian at this point. Haitians are different from Americans in a number of ways.

In Springfield, OH, which has been stricken by a huge wave of Haitian immigrants, they are still arguing about whether local Haitians are eating cats, dogs, and ducks and geese out of parks.

They have, however, produced evidence of two white American human beings run over by Haitian drivers (an 11 year old boy and a 71 year old grandmother), and according to the NY Post, Fatal accidents in Springfield, Ohio, jumped four-fold last year — as residents say migrants unfamiliar with US rules [September 14, 2024]

This is extremely typical of Haiti, where the road safety conditions are terrible—see for example Officials: Head-on crash in Haiti leaves over 20 dead, dozens injured By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, April 29, 2021.

Ahh, but why, you may well ask, has Haiti long been such a supreme shithole among shithole nations? Apart, that is, from being full of Haitians, that is. Pat Robertson, of all people, came up with a rather intriguing answer to that one.

Haiti has been an independent country almost as long as the United States. The Haitian Revolution of 1792 involved an almost total massacre of all white inhabitants. In 2010, white evangelist Pat Robertson got in trouble for saying, in regard to Haiti’s frequent earthquakes and hurricanes, that

"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," he said. "They were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you'll get us free from the French.’

"True story. And the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal,'" Robertson said. "Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another.”

I was surprised to hear him say that, but I looked into it, and it’s essentially true. (No cats or geese were harmed at the ceremony of Bois Caiman in August of 1791—they sacrificed a pig, instead.)

The Dominican Republic, occupying the eastern half of the same island, is much more mixed population, and much better run than Haiti. In particular, they have built a wall to keep out Haitian illegals, and are deporting the illegals already there.

I followed the link mentioned in the original piece, and essentially, he’s right. To wit:

On the night of August 14, 1791, representative slaves from nearby plantations gathered to participate in a secret ceremony conducted in the woods by nearby Le Cap in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. The ceremony was presided over by Dutty Boukman, a prominent enslaved African leader and Houngan, and Cécile Fatiman, a mambo. A witness described the presence of 200 enslaved Africans at the event. The ceremony served as both a religious ritual and strategic meeting as enslaved Africans met and planned a revolt against their ruling white enslavers of the colony's wealthy Northern Plain. The ceremony is considered the official beginning of the Haitian Revolution.

Participants of the Bois Caiman ceremony were inspired to revolt against their white oppressors due to their promise to the mysterious woman who appeared during the ceremony. The African woman figure had declared Boukman the “Supreme Chief” of the rebellion. In the following days, the whole Northern Plain was in flames, as the revolutionaries fought against the whites who had enslaved them. To reduce the social disorder of the rebellion, the French captured Boukman and beheaded him. The French then displayed his head on Cap’s square to prove his mortality and French power.

Clouded in mystery, many accounts of the catalytic ceremony and its particular details have varied. There are no known first-hand written accounts about what took place that night. It was first documented in the white colonist Antoine Dalmas's "History of the Saint-Domingue Revolution", published in 1814.

The Haitian writer Herard Dumesle visited the region and took oral testimonies in order to write his account of the ceremony. He recorded what is thought to be the earliest version of the Bois Caïman speech made by Dutty Boukman. Translated, it reads:

…This God who made the sun, who brings us light from above, who raises the sea, and who makes the storm rumble. That God is there, do you understand? Hiding in a cloud, He watches us, he sees all that the whites do! The God of the whites pushes them to crime, but he wants us to do good deeds. But the God who is so good orders us to vengeance. He will direct our hands, and give us help. Throw away the image of the God of the whites who thirsts for our tears. Listen to the liberty that speaks in all our hearts.

And there you have it. In sum, then:

As you can see, what this means is that Haitian immigration, even if all Haitians were vegan, swore off crime, and promised to rid the bus instead of driving, would be a net loss for America.

Such people pay less in taxes than they use in government services, and if they’re doing work “Americans won’t do”, it’s only because they’re doing it cheaper, and with less concern for safety.

Again: and there you have it. Whatever the reason for it may be, where Haitians go, immiseration, disorder, and chaos follows as night follows day. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I’ll say it again: they have no right to be here, they have no place here, and Ohioans (and Americans generally) need them here like they need another hole in their heads. Both figuratively AND literally, I mean.

Via The Tactical Hermit, who has pictures.