Why are Miami advocates are pushing to relocate Haitian children to the U.S.?

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Miami advocates are pushing to relocate Haitian children to the U.S.

By TODD WRIGHT

Some of Haiti's most fragile - its children - have arrived at Miami area hospitals and for a few, Miami may become their new home.

So far, 23 patients from the earthquake have been treated at Jackson Memorial Hospital, with countless more likely to be airlifted from the island for treatment. Florida Sen. Bill Nelson has contacted all the children's hospitals in Florida and requested that they receive critically injured Haitian children in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Nelson on Friday said he also plans to introduce a "major Haitian relief bill."

But the injured won't likely be the only children coming to Florida.

This makes no sense at all. Why are they coming to America when we have some of the worst healthcare on the planet? Don't they know we're in the middle of reform right now? Maybe we can do this in a few years, but for now these children need to have access to the best healthcare on the planet.

Clearly, they should be sent to Canada, Cuba, England, or even France. Anywhere but the US where no one cares if the poor live or die.