{"id":324363,"date":"2021-09-24T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T12:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?guid=62047765fa39b65b276a9847bdb62211"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T12:48:22","slug":"rep-maxine-waters-biden-admin-must-end-inhumane-deportation-whipping-of-haitian-asylum-seekers-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/24\/rep-maxine-waters-biden-admin-must-end-inhumane-deportation-whipping-of-haitian-asylum-seekers-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Maxine Waters: Biden Admin Must End \u201cInhumane\u201d Deportation &amp; Whipping of Haitian Asylum Seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/9\/24\/haitian_asylum_seekers_deportation_maxine_waters\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/35\/59635\/w320\/SEG3-Haitian-Migrants-2.jpg\" alt=\"Seg3 haitian migrants 2\" \/><\/a><p>Longtime diplomat Daniel Foote, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, has resigned in protest over the Biden administration&#8217;s mass deportation of Haitian asylum seekers and meddling in Haiti&#8217;s political affairs. The resignation comes days after U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback were filmed chasing, grabbing and whipping Haitian asylum seekers who had gathered in a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas. &#8220;I am outraged,&#8221; says Maxine Waters, a Democratic congressmember from California who is a longtime advocate for the rights of people in Haiti. She says refugees must be able to seek asylum in the U.S. without such &#8220;inhumane&#8221; treatment, and urges the Biden administration to do more to protect vulnerable people. &#8220;The United States can do better than this,&#8221; Waters says.<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/9\/24\/haitian_asylum_seekers_deportation_maxine_waters\" >Democracy Now!<\/a> and was authored by Democracy Now!.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/09\/24\/rep-maxine-waters-biden-admin-must-end-inhumane-deportation-whipping-of-haitian-asylum-seekers\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime diplomat Daniel Foote, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, has resigned in protest over the Biden administration&#8217;s mass deportation of Haitian asylum seekers and meddling in Haiti&#8217;s political affairs. The resignation comes days after U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback were filmed chasing, grabbing and whipping Haitian asylum seekers who had gathered in a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas. &#8220;I am outraged,&#8221; says Maxine Waters, a Democratic congressmember from California who is a longtime advocate for the rights of people in Haiti. She says refugees must be able to seek asylum in the U.S. without such &#8220;inhumane&#8221; treatment, and urges the Biden administration to do more to protect vulnerable people. &#8220;The United States can do better than this,&#8221; Waters says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,27150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324364,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324363\/revisions\/324364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}