At Least 1,000 Survivors of Katrina Are Being Brought to Puerto Rico

[beetbox]

Reports from people in Ceiba, PUerto Rico, indicate that at least 1,000 survivors of Katrina are being brought to the (supposedly closed but still run and restricted by) Roosevelt Roads Navy Base. This has precedence, when Haitian survivors of a hurricane ended up in Ft. Allen, Puerto Rico. The people are kept from the press, and from the civilians outside. And if the survivors don't speak Spanish they will have a hard time communicating even if they can get out.

[htuttle]

1. They're sending them to the colonies?

Why would they send people somewhere they won't be able to get back from? I can't believe the Continental US isn't able to handle another 1,000 survivors somewhere more appropriate than 'offshore'.

[Misunderestimator]

2. Wow... Now we are offshoring our evacuees!

[katmondoo]

5. What is next? Shipping them to GITMO.

They may have room, some prisoners have been released.

[beetbox]

12. 21st Century Trail of Tears

In the last week, we've seen many of the black poor of New Orleans not only left behind in a new Atlantis, but thousands upon thousands of them -- those who didn't die in their wheelchairs, or on highway overpasses, or in the ill-fated convention center, or unattended and forgotten in their homes -- sent off on what looked very much like a new trail of tears. Right now, above all, New Orleans and the Mississippi coast, as so many reporters have observed with shock, are simply the Bangladesh of North America (after a disastrous set of monsoons), or a Kinshasa (without the resources).

[Fleshdancer]

3. No disrespect to Puerto Rico but....

I don't like the idea of American survivors shipped to other countries and placed on a military base. Seems like a very cold thing to do.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Especially one routinely struck by HURRICANES!

Out of the frying pan...:grr:

[LTR]

7. Technically, not another country

PR is a territory of the U.S.

Well, might as well send 'em off to a place where their vote doesn't count.

[Fleshdancer]

10. Unless they can vote, I recognize PR as a different country

owning territory without giving people of that territory a political voice is the most un-American thing I can think of.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Puerto Rico is US territory.

Has been for over a century. Hardly another country. Still doesn't make sense, though. Are they going to be shipping hurricane refugees to Midway and Guam next?

[liberalitch]

15. With a NONVOTING member of congress.....

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. Yeah, and no representation in the Electoral College, either.

[Child_Of_Isis]

4. Wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of them disappeared.

Shipped to Africa and other third world places.

[liberalitch]

13. especially the most vocal among them

[Drum]

8. Does this count as rendition?

Gitmo II, coming soon!

[liberalitch]

11. deported.... before 2006 midterms

I wonder how easy it will be to get back to a place that has congressional representation so that they can vote in 2006.

DON"T YOU SEE WHAT"S HAPPENING?!?!

Deport the angry poor before the 2006 midterms

[Don Claybrook]

14. Do you have a link for this please?

Thank you.

[beetbox]

16. Not at the moment

Will hopefully bring it up later tonight when I have more time to relocate it.

At present the reports are that the survivors are being kept from the press but the news of all the relocations will get out though I suspect much of it will be after the fact kind of reporting when this is not fully on the radar.

[2bfree]

17. That just doesn't sound like a good idea, does it?

Why are they doing that? That would be scary for those people I would think. Most of these people are really poor and can't just hop a plane if they want to leave.