Kendrick Meek: “Well, drugs are a problem in Miami, in that drugs are now being routed into Haiti because it is a poor country, it is a…”

“Well, drugs are a problem in Miami, in that drugs are now being routed into Haiti because it is a poor country, it is a depressed country. Something needs to be done about interdiction. I think our government should intervene in Haiti to keep the drug lords from taking over Haiti. It is very close to the Dominican Republic. They have trouble with the Haitian infusion there. Nassau, the Bahamas, is having trouble because the people in Haiti are very poor. To answer the question, the Haitian community in Miami is well aware of these problems. They are organizing every day to try to bring these problems we have discussed to the light of this country. So the drug problem is great. Also, immigration is a problem. And, of course, if situations continue to get worse and worse in Haiti, then they are going to try to migrate to the United States. And when they do that, they come in boats, they come in any way they can get there, and many of them lose their lives. Many of them are washed up on the shores of Miami Beach. It makes a very bad picture to see these pictures of people who are running from a very poor and deprived country coming to another country, where there is all the good, when America could be extending the loans and the help which they should be giving to Haiti now. Because it would stop people from dying, and it would stop the drug lords from looking at Haiti as being a very lucrative place to peddle their drugs. So it is a big problem.”