Stranded - US denied Jamaican nurse passage from Haiti

[Mosiah]

Stranded - US denied Jamaican nurse passage from Haiti
Published: Sunday | January 24, 2010


Daraine Luton, Staff Reporter
Port-au-Prince, Haiti:

A Jamaican nurse practitioner was yesturday denied passage to the United States when she attempted to leave Haiti.

Melissa Marballie, who has been the holder of a US green card since 2005, was turned back by US immigration when she attempted to return to the States where she has lived since 2000.

She had been in Haiti since last Sunday, arriving with a group of medical volunteers in the aftermath of the disaster.

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...ews/news1.html

[Bricktop]

She need fi send some drugs to America

[Mosiah]

"The way I feel about the United States' actions cannot be put into words," Marballie said.

She added: "They would have let me stay on the streets. I have always known that being a green-card holder means that you are a third-class citizen, but it is today that I found out!"

GBTUSA!

[Bricktop]

Well in their defence she ain't American!!!!

p.s yuh might want to change your Avatar. Dis bredda looks like him cyaan handle di ting

[Mosiah]

tanks fi di advice!

[Assasin]

Americans can't even get out either. She never hear say Bruce sent planes? She could a go a Ja and ketch one to the US.

[Mosiah]

yuh read the article?

well, she did just that. she seems to believe that she is a citizen of the good old USA! she lucky dem never cancel har green card!

[Assasin]

I understand her fustration but in a time of disaster like this, there are limits on how many people can leave at a time. It is natural that the preference will be US citizen leaving to the US. Don't you think the US customs and immigration is flooded with request?

She did the right thing in trying to get to Jamaica first. You think if she was a US citizen going to the government of Jamaica for a ride out she would get first priority to Jamaica? If so the Jamaican camp would be flooded with that request.

[HL]

....good reasoning Assasin:

[Bricktop]

You think if she was a US citizen going to the government of Jamaica for a ride out she would get first priority to Jamaica?

A white US citizen? Yes

[Jawge]

a since when yuh know colour? wha yuh feel suppen up north? LOL

[Bricktop]

Where I work the head of operations is a black yute from Gambia wit dreads. I met him while i was taking some classes and he offered me a job. I accepted and am now the Production Manager giving orders to the old redneck breddas in the fabrication shop. We haffi work twice as hard as our white predecessors and still a get a fight. Di bredda dem nah listen to we so we always haffi go upstairs to the President to get tings done. Guess brownman don't carry nuh weight round here

[Jawge]

So yuh fine roots america. Den how yuh ah cuss it so? Dem mek yuh fine yuhself, don't .

[MdmeX]

GBTUSA!

Right on that - you nuh see she want to come back to the USA!
God bless America

[Mosiah]

GBA