Not so long ago, I wrote an article to pouring the Biden administration's policy of dumping Haitian refugees on an airport tarmac near Port-au-Prince.

Most of these thousands of refugees, many of whom made their way toward the United States from Central and South America, fled Haiti a decade ago after a devastating earthquake produced mass starvation.

Now, in the recent wake of two more natural disasters and political collapse, the United States sees fit condemn these men and women to a cruel fate that for many will end in death.

I didn't expect writing the article would have any kind of positive impact, but as a US citizen I felt obligated to speak up for humanity and common decency.

I expected to be ignored, but I did not expect the avalanche of negative comments I received from my fellow citizens, from my fellow Democrats, from self-identified liberal and progressive people.

They spoke up first to reflexively defend President Biden, who has become something like a god in some people's eyes to the point that morality and decency don''t matter anymore.

Then they spoke up to decry the cost of caring for refugees. They repeated talking point after talking point to claim the United States cannot afford to welcome immigrants.

All this while we were dumping thousands of human beings on an airport tarmac to die.