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The hemisphere. i ve seen pictures of waste. deportation in the short-term is not going to make haiti more stable. in fact, it s going to make it worse. so this is going to be an ongoing issue, jacqueline according to the reporting. roughly 10 to 20,000 more haitians are currently camping out in columbia, headed to the u.s. border. i mean, what s the advice you offer as a reporter to the administration when it comes to handling this humanitarian crisis. it s not over. listening to ambassador foote, i couldn t help but think this problem didn t start overnight. it s been there all along. until recently, you had an administration that was just basically ignoring the problem, blinded by the situation on the ground in haiti, and the reality is that haiti today does have a deep security problem. we have people being kidnapped in church while they re attending church. no longer is church even a safe haven. you cannot get humanitarian aid ....
Be in areas that are controlled by the gangs that are affected by the earthquake or in other difficult situations. and the more that come here, the more difficult the situation will be. the special envoy in the biden administration, ambassador foote, resigned because of what he called inhuman treatment of haitian migrants. is what the united states is doing inhumane, in your opinion? again, i can say what i see here, and i don t see any inhumane situation. they re arriving, of course they re frustrated, they want to eat something because they haven t eaten. the best we can do is advocate for the best possible conditions to be respected and their rights, as they said, they want to see a judge, they want their rights to be covered, and that is absolutely primary for both governments, u.s. and haiti, to sort out as soon as possible. before you go, quite simply, ....
I think the vice president is technically on the hook for what happens. the biden administration gave her responsibility for challenges of immigration and these images quite frankly cede the moral high ground. democrats watched what happened at the border under the trump administration and they were rightfully in many cases outraged about what they saw. the president ran on a platform that included changing some of these immigration policies and they have certainly done that in certain ways behind the scenes with regulation but it s these images of these men on horseback with the haitian immigrants that americans are going to remember, and i think it s clear that the vice president wanted to make sure that she was putting mayorkas on notice. look, one of the calling cards of candidate biden was i m going to bring grown-ups into the government we know how to do this. every administration has some turmoil but it s remarkable that you have the vice president calling out an agency in the ....
These were attacks. there hasn t been another explanation put forward. i spoke with a senior state department official who told me, look, they just don t know who this is, they don t know if it was a state actor and if they called it attacks, that would imply they had figured this out. between that story and the resignation of the special envoy to haiti, afghanistan, so many issues, what s the morale like at the state department now? it seems like story after story, they re getting kicked in the teeth over there. reporter: not only do you have these folks leaving under really questionable circumstances but you also have all of these vacancies at the state department of senior positions that they haven t been able to get filled and confirmed. it really is taking an impact on the morale among our diplomats. in the case of ambassador foote, special envoy to haiti, typically, garrett, when ambassadors or diplomats retire, they do to pretty diplomatically. that s kind of their job. but ....
Anything but diplomatic. it s inhumane to send these haitian migrants, most them in south america for some time. they left after an earthquake a decade ago and to repatriate them now to haiti he says is inhumane and he also doesn t think the biden administration has its act together on a broader haiti policy and jen psaki saying he s had ample opportunity to air his concerns up the chain of command. he clearly feels, the ambassador, is not being listened to. resigning is a big deal. it is a big deal f.more that have had happened in the last administration we would have made big stories about it, when people resign because of a disagreement over this big over policy so it s a big signal on his part and certainly it s to pick up on what what casey said, the vice president s office releasing that statement shows she not only wants to put a marker on that for herself but also sort of the politics behind all of this. she needs to be on the record saying we re not okay with this. and p ....