Carrie Meek: “I hear more a referendum on not having Haitians come to Florida than I do on solving the foreign policy issue of…”

“I hear more a referendum on not having Haitians come to Florida than I do on solving the foreign policy issue of Haitians and freeing them and making a democracy in Haiti. I think that we should certainly vote against the Goss amendment because it is an amendment that sets up a safe haven, quote unquote. It is not a safe haven to set up the kind of arrangement which Mr. Goss has mentioned here. I think the main purpose behind it is to keep the Haitians from trying to return to Florida and to receive some kind of safe haven there or in the United States. Sanctions are dangerous also; they kill people also. If you read the paper, you will see children lining up for food; that is in a killing field, almost as dangerous as a gun or as dangerous as a bullet.”