Backyard Islands- Reflection 18

The information provided in the article “Tale of two Islands” sort of clarifies what many people have been saying all along. Miami Florida is a very diverse place that is home to many immigrants. Amongst those immigrants there are Haitians, Dominicans, Cubans, Jamaicans, etc. Of these immigrants, the Cubans stand above the rest when it comes to getting permanent residency in America. America tends to be more lenient to immigrants from Cuba than from any other country specifically Haiti. Cubans have the Wet Foot Dry Foot policy on their side which basically says that if they reach land before the Coast Guard can get to them then they are able to stay and have permanent residency. Though when those immigrants who travel from Haiti via an overfilled small passenger boat, they are denied and sent back to their country; A country that is one of the poorest countries in the world if it does not already hold that title. Even though Cuba is governed by dictators, they aren’t in the most horrible of situations. Haiti has and is still suffering from poverty and lack of a stable helping government. Not to mention the recent earthquake that happened that has devastated what was left of the declining country. The U.S has offered to grant temporary protective status to the Haitians that are already in the United States and that can prove that they have been here before the earthquake happened. They have been granted this for only eighteen months which seems preposterous to me. The government provides the immigrants who can pay to get a temporary social and residency card which will allow them to work legally for a year and a half. I wonder what the government will do when the eighteen months have depleted. Will they ship all of the temporary residents out of the country? Now many would say that the United States are being racist because of the fact that it is so easy for Cubans to get their residency and to get their official papers than it is for a Haitian who may have traveled the same way that the Cubans travel to the United States which is by boat. I think a case can be made for charges of institutional racism against Haitians by the United States. Why is that a country would deny one country’s immigrants while other they grant refuge? If you’re going to allow one, allow the both of them. Or to make it simpler, simply allow no one. But do not refuse immigrants from a country who suffer from poverty only to take in immigrants who feel their government is being too mean.
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