{"id":14125,"date":"2024-03-15T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/rep-cory-mills-airlifts-americans-out-of-haiti\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T05:21:23","slug":"rep-cory-mills-airlifts-americans-out-of-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/rep-cory-mills-airlifts-americans-out-of-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Cory Mills Airlifts Americans Out of Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Representative Cory Mills (R-FL) announced that he is conducting airlift missions to evacuate Americans from Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>Mills, alongside Representative Lisa McClain (R-MI) brought back 10 Americans working at an orphanage in Port au Prince.<\/p>\n<p>Columnist Mitch Albom, one of the evacuees who has run the orphanage since 2010, said, \u201cIt was a helicopter effort and was pretty crazy. I want to thank Cory Mills and Lisa McClain, who were instrumental in making this happen as an independent effort. We were lucky to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany other Americans, Canadians and others are still stuck in Haiti in an extremely volatile situation and they need help getting out and it seems very little is coming from our governments,\u201d Albom stated, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/columnists\/mitch-albom\/2024\/03\/12\/mitch-albom-rescued-from-haiti-congress-lisa-mcclain-orphanage\/72949569007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Detriot Free Press<\/a>. \u201cOur personal biggest concern is our 60 children and 40 staff at the Have Faith Haiti Orphanage who have to endure their country\u2019s violence and danger everyday with no option to leave. We truly implore our U.S leaders to be more active in helping to save their country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on X, Mills wrote, \u201cI am proud to report that my team and I were successful in evacuating and rescuing a trapped, and at risk group of Americans from \u2018Have Faith Orphanage\u2019 in Haiti last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis recent mission reiterates a disturbing reality that under President Biden\u2019s leadership American lives are continually jeopardized. I have conducted rescue\/ evacs of Americans multiple times when Joe Biden has deserted them. There\u2019s a clear pattern of abandonment!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans at home and abroad are more unsafe under Biden than ever before. We need President Trump back in the White House as the world can\u2019t afford 4 more years of Biden\u2019s failed administration,\u201d Mills added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am proud to report that my team and I were successful in evacuating and rescuing a trapped, and at risk group of Americans from \u2018Have Faith Orphanage\u2019 in Haiti last night.<\/p>\n<p>This recent mission reiterates a disturbing reality that under President Biden\u2019s leadership American\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cory Mills (@CoryMillsFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoryMillsFL\/status\/1767664499606290722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA day removed from a daring rescue mission in Haiti, @RepMillsPress is back in DC for his full-time job,\u201d McClain wrote. \u201cI have to extend my deepest gratitude to him and his team for getting our Michiganders home safely. THANK YOU CORY!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A day removed from a daring rescue mission in Haiti, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMillsPress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepMillsPress<\/a> is back in DC for his full-time job.<\/p>\n<p>I have to extend my deepest gratitude to him and his team for getting our Michiganders home safely. <br \/>THANK YOU CORY! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ojvYKVZG2E\">pic.twitter.com\/ojvYKVZG2E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Representative Lisa McClain (@RepLisaMcClain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLisaMcClain\/status\/1767930615427375290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Mills also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gop-lawmaker-rescues-americans-war-ordeal-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assisted<\/a>\u00a0in the evacuation of 77 U.S. citizens who found themselves unable to secure a flight out of Tel Aviv due to widespread airline cancellations following the attack on Israel by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mills told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gop-lawmaker-rescues-americans-war-ordeal-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News Digital<\/a>, \u201cYou know, for me, there\u2019s a statesman and there\u2019s a politician. One acts and the other one talks, and I just couldn\u2019t sit there knowing Americans were losing their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/florida-rep-cory-mills-helps-evacuate-77-americans-from-israel-amid-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a>, \u201cAnd, look, I\u2019m not making a massive dent in things. There\u2019s thousands of people that are still trapped there. I got 32 people out today, and I hope to get a lot more tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                    <!--begin code --><\/p>\n<p>                    <!--end code --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/rep-cory-mills-airlifts-americans-out-of-haiti\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Cory Mills (R-FL) announced that he is conducting airlift missions to evacuate Americans from Haiti. Mills, alongside Representative Lisa McClain (R-MI) brought back 10 Americans working at an orphanage in Port au Prince. Columnist Mitch Albom, one of the evacuees who has run the orphanage since 2010, said, \u201cIt was a helicopter effort and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}