America's "Catch 22" Classic

You'd think they were Jewish.  In some ways the story about the Haitian refugees rushed by the American armed forces to the states after the serious, devastating earthquake reminds me of how the American Government treated Jews fleeing the Nazis.

A few dozen Haitians have been jailed, because they don't have U.S. visas.  No, they didn't escape illegally trying to get to the United States.

"More than two months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, at least 30 survivors who were waved onto planes by Marines in the chaotic aftermath are prisoners of the United States immigration system, locked up since their arrival in detention centers in Florida."

No doubt all this bad publicity will facilitate the speedy end to their Catch 22 style purgatory.

It's not really like what happened to Jews trying to escape the Nazis.  The numbers are much smaller, and nobody is out to murder them in Haiti.  The good intentions of those Marines who invited them abroad aren't fatal.  It's not like the over-feeding by U.S. servicemen of Jews who survived the punishing Nazi concentration camps and then died because their bodies couldn't handle all of the rich food they were suddenly given.

This is just one of those crazy stories which makes you wonder if anybody really knows what's happening in large governments.  Has common sense taken its leave?  Anarchy reigns supreme.