AP’s Lemire: Biden Admin ‘Strongly Leaning Against’ Sending Troops to Haiti

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LEMIRE: "So we’ve heard direct appeals from the Haitian government asking the U.S. to send military presence, send troops to the island nation to try to stabilize things there as it is, as you said, descending into chaos, large portions of it. The U.S. has not ruled that out, but they are strongly leaning against it. We heard from White House officials, the Pentagon officials yesterday talking to us, who were with the president — traveling with the president in Delaware for the weekend, as well as on the Sunday shows, pointing out that that team you just mentioned of FBI agents, Department of Homeland Security agents will be in Haiti, in Port-au-Prince these next couple of days and it will do an assessment and then report back. But from the internal deliberations, they do not think that sending troops down there would be the right decision, though they are keeping a wary eye on the situation there. Haiti, of course, in the Americas, not very far from the United States, a country that has really struggled to pick itself back up after a devastating earthquake in 2010. The government, accusations are being ripe with corruption, obviously there’s real poverty, and they’re worried that this could destabilize further as the investigators try to untangle what’s a very murky scenario, story, in terms of what exactly led to this assassination with four nationals being among those arrested, and now, of course, this man with the ties to Florida."