I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, September 24th.

So what is the moral thing to do when more than 10,000 migrants from Haiti reach the U.S.-Mexico border as their country

is in a post-earthquake, post-hurricane, post-presidential assassination crisis of food, housing,

COVID, and an armed gang reign of terror in many areas. Is it to deport them back on mass?

Certainly not, according to whom President Biden's own special

envoy for Haiti, Daniel Foote, maybe you've heard this by now, right after the show yesterday.

He made a big statement by resigning with a searing public resignation letter that included these

words. I will not be associated with the United

States inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal

immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because

of the dangers posed by armed gangs in control of daily life.

So again, that was a quote from Special Envoy for Haiti, Daniel Foote, his resignation letter

to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. We should note that the Biden administration is also being

criticized from the right for letting too many of

the Haitian migrants in. The screaming headline on the cover of the New York Post yesterday was

border lie. Biden said he'd deport Haitians, but he's secretly letting many in. So what's the right

thing to do? What would the U.S. do if the migrants were white? Would

the conversation be any different? Would you be asking yourself the same questions in the same

ways if they were from somewhere like Norway? So let's talk about what's happening and what's the

right thing to do. With me now are Anu Joshi, Vice President for Policy

at the New York Immigration Coalition, an umbrella policy and advocacy organization that represents

over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York, and Tracy Wain's regional

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