The United States has no plans to send troops to Haiti as it spirals into chaos. But it also has no plans—right now—to activate its “maritime mass migration” protocol to allow the Coast Guard and Navy to get into position to interdict illegal immigrant flotillas and return them to their point of origin or to a port in a third nation.
Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Carlos Giménez (R-Fla.), a former Miami-Dade County mayor, queried Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs Rebecca Zimmerman about the Pentagon’s Haiti contingency plans during a House Armed Services Committee March 12 hearing on Western Hemisphere national security challenges….