Nayyera Haq: Haiti's journey from a groundbreaking country to a failed state is a sordid tale of American exceptionalism threatened by Black progress.
President Thomas Jefferson saw the enslaved people of Haiti fight against all odds to gain their freedom and responded by supporting French demands that Haitians pay reparations to their former oppressors. That debt, currently valued at nearly $30 billion, ensured the world’s richest colony became one of the world’s poorest nations.
Decades of U.S. military intervention, from President Woodrow Wilson in the 1920s to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, put a U.S.-trained army in place while preventing democratic systems from naturally taking root. Generations of Haitians fleeing the resulting violence and corruption were denied access to political asylum. American presidents saw Haiti’s dictators as tolerable compared with the communists running Cuba.
When presented with the opportunity to reset immigration rules in favor of racial justice, the Biden administration opted to continue deporting Haitians rather than finding a way to give dignity back to the Haitian people. The United States can no longer be responsible for reconstruction or building new economies. But in seeking to deal with the root causes of migration, our policy needs to account for the pain the United States has created.
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