Haitians being relocated to Orlando (Miami, Sanford: short sales, foreclosures, credit card)

[JerseyPhanatic]

I think this is a great idea. Those 45,000 Haitians will be a great addition to Orlando. I think Orlando should welcome them all and encourage more to come.

[annerk]

Originally Posted by JerseyPhanatic

I think this is a great idea. Those 45,000 Haitians will be a great addition to Orlando. I think Orlando should welcome them all and encourage more to come.

I think that we should send them all to Moorestown.

[johnatl]

Originally Posted by JerseyPhanatic

I think this is a great idea. Those 45,000 Haitians will be a great addition to Orlando. I think Orlando should welcome them all and encourage more to come.

Welcome back, DailyJournalist.

I would think that Collingswood would be a much better fit, being right down the road from Camden and all.

[MovedfromFL]

Can the schools handle an influx of new students? If I recall correctly, the feds just cut some of the funding to Orlando area schools because student population numbers weren't as high as forecast.

FCAT testing is coming up soon and any new students will have to take the test. I also recall that their scores count if they arrive within a certain window of the test date.

[GLS2010]

The news is saying they are being flown here and being picked up by family members who are taking them to other cities throughout the US, this is just the main landing ground. They said the major cities they are going to are Boston NYC and Miami, They're being flown to Orlando because its conveniently located and has a lot of hotel rooms to keep them in until they leave. Everyone of them who are coming here are US citizens, who are the wealthier Haitians, they have the right to come to the country they are citizens of. There are only 45,000 of US citizens in Haiti, thats less than the amount of dead bodies they've found so far, and way less than the 1.6 million homeless Haitians right now in Haiti.

[GLS2010]

Originally Posted by johnatl

Welcome back, DailyJournalist.

I would think that Collingswood would be a much better fit, being right down the road from Camden and all.

agreed. haha

[poodlestix]

I was living in Houston during the whole Katrina debacle. Houston's population grew significantly when everybody evacuated New Orleans, and most of them stayed after the fact when New Orleans was all but destroyed. Since many of the New Orleaneans were on government assistance, they were used to being taken care of. Houston generously provided them free housing, free utilities, and food vouchers for a year with the thought that they'd easily become self-sufficient and have a job by the time the year was up. After a year, when the city was going to end their assistance and make them pay for their own existence, they put up a huge stink. I couldn't believe it when the city extended their benefits for another full year. When that year was up, the same scenario repeated itself. I left Houston to move here about 18 months ago, and when I left they were still living off of our city. Crime was also up significantly along with record murder rates. I hope Orlando isn't going to fall into the same trap.

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Originally Posted by GLS2010

The news is saying they are being flown here and being picked up by family members who are taking them to other cities throughout the US, this is just the main landing ground. They said the major cities they are going to are Boston NYC and Miami, They're being flown to Orlando because its conveniently located and has a lot of hotel rooms to keep them in until they leave. Everyone of them who are coming here are US citizens, who are the wealthier Haitians, they have the right to come to the country they are citizens of. There are only 45,000 of US citizens in Haiti, thats less than the amount of dead bodies they've found so far, and way less than the 1.6 million homeless Haitians right now in Haiti.

Hotel rooms that WE are paying for. If they are so "wealthy" they should be paying their own way once they land on US soil. I have no problem using our military resources to extricate US citizens from Haiti, but once they land here, I don't believe we have a further obligation to them.

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Originally Posted by poodlestix

I was living in Houston during the whole Katrina debacle. Houston's population grew significantly when everybody evacuated New Orleans, and most of them stayed after the fact when New Orleans was all but destroyed. Since many of the New Orleaneans were on government assistance, they were used to being taken care of. Houston generously provided them free housing, free utilities, and food vouchers for a year with the thought that they'd easily become self-sufficient and have a job by the time the year was up. After a year, when the city was going to end their assistance and make them pay for their own existence, they put up a huge stink. I couldn't believe it when the city extended their benefits for another full year. When that year was up, the same scenario repeated itself. I left Houston to move here about 18 months ago, and when I left they were still living off of our city. Crime was also up significantly along with record murder rates. I hope Orlando isn't going to fall into the same trap.

We had a large number of refugess to Orlando after Katrina, same story, different city.

[michaelceriale]

Originally Posted by poodlestix

I was living in Houston during the whole Katrina debacle. Houston's population grew significantly when everybody evacuated New Orleans, and most of them stayed after the fact when New Orleans was all but destroyed. Since many of the New Orleaneans were on government assistance, they were used to being taken care of. Houston generously provided them free housing, free utilities, and food vouchers for a year with the thought that they'd easily become self-sufficient and have a job by the time the year was up. After a year, when the city was going to end their assistance and make them pay for their own existence, they put up a huge stink. I couldn't believe it when the city extended their benefits for another full year. When that year was up, the same scenario repeated itself. I left Houston to move here about 18 months ago, and when I left they were still living off of our city. Crime was also up significantly along with record murder rates. I hope Orlando isn't going to fall into the same trap.

The land of opportunity and Free for all unless your one of those middle class workers who have to pay taxes and get taxed for everything they can possibly think of. I'm retired but the way things are with taxes, electric bills tripling, water the same and every other thing we pay for, I may be going back to work too. It just never ends. I guess we can pay for this too, what the hell.