Our friend and colleague Paul Mayer, the current Consular Section Chief at the United States Consulate General in Montreal, has recently posted a blog on his experiences while serving as Acting Consul-General at the United States Embassy in Port-au-Prince Haiti, during the days following the January 2010 earthquake. He mentions the Embassy’s priority to evacuate United States citizens during times of emergency. However, he also talks about the difficulty he faced each day, having to turn away applicants who had no claim to United States citizenship but who had arrived at the consulate with their suitcases packed, hoping that the United States government would feed them, house them, and evacuate them from Haiti. I urge you to read Paul’s blog, which is available here.