Suspending Return Tickets

You would never expect the US Department of Fatherland Security and Disaster Disasters to show compassion.  That's not why George III invented it.  It is supposed to curtail civil liberties, raise terror alerts and read your emails.

But along comes a disastrous earthquake in Haiti, and the Katrina-Kops are suddenly all soft and humane. 

Now-temporary Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced that she is suspending Haitian deportation.  You have to admit that is awfully sweet.  A few days ago, Haitians illegal in the US were being sent home to their pretty Caribbean half-island quicker than you can get a passport with a tracking chip in it.  At that time--those good days seems ages ago now--our ousted Haitians had huts to go home to and the prospect of landing a dollar an hour job by the time you got your next 55" TV.

Well, the Haitian huts are gone and job prospects have dimmed, so Secretary Janet had second thoughts about plopping even an illegal alien down onto Hell's Beach with cameras rolling.

And her slightly less-temporary boss, sent the Navy and Coast Guard out to help out any Haitians, the one's sailing the wrong way, with their navigation.

Except there doesn't seem to be a boat or raft left in all of Port au Prince.  We'll have to help the Haitian's rebuild them, too.  It might be cheap... more humane to send a big cruise ship and sail them all to another Frenchified paradise, say Montserrat.