While Washington and the country as a whole are focused on the southern border, there is an invasion of Florida that has been forgotten.
recently paid visit Thank you to the brave Coast Guard defending Florida from illegal immigrants and drug traffickers. The Coast Guard was kind enough to give me a briefing and an aerial tour.
I decided on this trip after looking at recent shocking immigration statistics, especially immigration statistics.The number of illegal Haitian immigrants entering Florida.
Between January and May 2023 alone, CBP encountered There are 23,490 illegal Haitians in the Florida area. For comparison, when fiscal years 2020, 2021 and 2022 are combined, CBP encountered only 1,479 cases in the Florida sector.
of The Coast Guard regularly intercepts Haitians at sea trying to reach Florida through the Florida Strait, Bimini Strait and the Bahamas Strait.
COAST GUARD CREW AFTER OCTOBER 1, 2022 suspended 4,717 Haitian immigrants. This is a staggering 1,000 percent increase from 418 Haitian immigrants. caught During fiscal 2017, we were active at sea.
All functionally landed Haitians can stay in Florida permanently.
Unlike when illegal immigrants spread across the country across the southern border, these Haitians are flocking to southeastern Florida, depleting taxpayer resources.
Haiti isn’t doing its best. During my travels, I learned that our brave Coast Guard members had to witness some tragic events as they dealt with illegal immigrants in Haiti. One person told me, “Sometimes when we get close to a ship, Haitians douse babies in petrol and threaten to burn them alive if we get on board.”
We need to be honest about the impact of free illegal immigration from Haiti.
They are not software engineers caught at sea.a 2005 survey Only 12 percent of Haitian immigrants living in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood have a high school degree.In the same year, more than 85 percent of adults nationwide had high school degree.
The impact of illegal Haitian immigration on social services in Florida is significant.they are 2 or more times They are more likely than their native-born peers to access food stamps, Medicaid, and other major benefit programs.
These illegal immigrants also place a heavy burden on Florida’s hospitals. Year 2005 study Nearly a third of Haitians in Miami were found to use taxpayer-funded health care. Haitian immigrants in Miami have high rates of chronic health conditions, including: HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. This is due to many factors, including poverty. Haitians are the poorest An ethnic group in Miami-Dade County.
This makes sense given what kind of country Haiti is. Haiti is a miserable place and has been for a long time. The government is corrupt and the quality of life is the worst in the Western Hemisphere. know. I have been there and seen. It is a sad and horrific state of human existence, and while we wish the corruption that had harmed these people did not exist, it does. The fact that Haiti is close to Florida does not mean that my state should be flooded with illegal Haitian immigrants.
They not only burden state social services, but state prisons as well. Fort Myers Police Officer Adam Jobers Miller killed After being shot in the head by a foreigner from Haiti with an immigration officer in 2018. It was an avoidable death.
We are not Haiti. America has the ability to solve this immigration crisis. Pentagon resources, including the Navy, must surge to stop this Florida invasion. All illegal immigrants caught trying to come to America must be promptly deported to their home countries.
Internal coercion is also required. Illegal immigrants who come here cannot stay. There will be no road to citizenship. they must return.
One of the things that distinguishes our great country from places like Haiti is the rule of law. Let’s force
We cannot sit back and watch Biden go to Haiti, Florida.
Matt Gates represents Florida’s 1st congressional district.
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