In what could be the start of an impending humanitarian crisis, a group of more than 500 Haitian refugees is now walking through Mexico and heading toward the U.S., where they hope to seek asylum and shelter from the terrible conditions in their poverty-stricken homeland — especially in the wake…
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Archived: Will Republicans Trash the Economy on the Altar of Bigotry
The Trump administration and its sycophant GOP enablers seem more than willing to sacrifice the nation’s economic power and growth in exchange for ridding the United States of its darker-skinned immigrant population. Deportation policies favored by President Donald Trump and his fellow immigration restrictionists aside from being inhumane and morally…
Archived: Trump Spent MLK Day Tweeting Vulgarities From His Florida Golf Course
President Donald Trump celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day at one of his golf clubs in Florida and used his time to tweet vulgar comments about Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting. Deals can’t get made when there is no…
Archived: African Diplomats and Politicians Call Trump Racist in Organized Backlash
(Reuters) — African politicians and diplomats labeled President Donald Trump a racist on Friday after he was reported to have described some immigrants from Africa and Haiti as coming from “shithole” countries. Sources told Reuters on Thursday that Trump had questioned why the United States would want immigrants from “shithole…
Archived: Trump's 'Shithole' Comment About Black and Latino Nations Shouldn't Surprise Anyone
Along with calling Mexicans rapists, referring to protesting Black NFL players as sons of bitches and describing Neo-Nazis as fine people after the Charlottesville protests to name a few racist comments President Donald Trump has now insulted Haiti, El Salvador and African nations by calling them “shithole countries.” Trump made…
Archived: How Johnson & Johnson Is Helping Give Babies in Haiti a Safe Place to Sleep
(Originally published on JNJ.com) When Hurricane Irmathe strongest observed in the Atlantic Ocean in over a decadetouched down this past fall in the United States and the Caribbean, it mercifully spared much of the country of Haiti. The bad news: Haiti is still rebuilding from the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew,…
Archived: Abbott Supports Relief Efforts in Haiti
Hurricane Matthew, one of the strongest hurricanes seen in recent years, has had a devastating impact on Haiti and damaged the U.S. Southeast coast as well. The Abbott Fund (Abbott is No. 14 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) provided $75,000 in funding to help our longstanding partner in…