# Should the US relief effort in Haiti include immigration of refugees?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 13, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-relief-effort-in-haiti-include-immigration-of-refugees/524818 "2010-01-13T19:01:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-relief-effort-in-haiti-include-immigration-of-refugees/524818/17 "2010-01-17T16:56:04Z")

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> [@"Come back to Africa..." Wade tells Haitians](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-back-to-africa-wade-tells-haitians/525312/19):
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> In the [other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=547690), you made a reference to the “White Man’s Burden,” so it sure sounds to me like you find all these poor black people troublesome. (And also like you would prefer them to be someone _else’s_ problem.)

Your straw men are irrelevant to me.

I said we don’t have a white man’s burden to accept the entire country of Haiti into the United States. If you can’t read for context, maybe you should read a post twice before responding to it. That doesn’t imply that the people of Haiti are a burden, only that they would be if they came to the US. Here we have an offer on the table from Senegal, and you’re shitting all over it. But it’s a real offer, not some imaginary offer by the United States.

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