Emitte Bootle spent 25 years driving school buses on the Bahamas' Great Aba...
NASSAU, Bahamas/NEW YORK - Emitte Bootle spent 25 years driving school buses on the Bahamas’ Great Abaco Island, but now that Hurricane Dorian has devastated his home, there are no students to drive - and nowhere to take them.
“What the government needs to do is build better houses and infrastructure, and I don’t know if they can do that,” said Bootle, 54. “Abaco may not come back in my lifetime.” When asked on Monday whether he would consider loosening immigration rules to aid storm-stricken Bahamians, Trump asserted the Bahamas had “tremendous problems” with allowing “very bad people” into the country, and that he wanted to ensure those people do not make it to the United States.Dorian pummeled the Bahamas with 200 mile-per-hour winds last week, causing immense destruction among the Abacos islands. Authorities have said at least 45 people died.
“The government says everyone’s being fed, and that’s good,” Morley said. “But for food I can fish. What I need is a house. I don’t have a bed, a refrigerator. I don’t even have a Bible.” Fourteen other members of Florida’s 27-seat congressional delegation, including two Republicans, co-signed the letter, and Wilson’s office said she expected others to do so this week.
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