GOP Rep. Cory Mills did what Biden's team failed to do

U.S. Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) has helped 23 Americans escape from the chaos of Port-au-Prince, Haiti which is being overpowered by criminal gangs.

"Our team has now successfully rescued and evacuated more Americans than (President Joe) Biden and his entire administration," Mills claimed in a tweet on X. "Americans deserve support from their government. Not the pattern of abandonment this administration has shown."

Mills did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He told the Washington Examiner he first got involved last week after a request for assistance by U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain, a Michigan Republican, on behalf of the Have Faith orphanage, started by author Mitch Albom ["Tuesdays with Morrie," "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," "The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto," and more].

"Thanks to the efforts of Representatives Cory Mills and Lisa McClain and a brave team of pilots, 10 volunteers were able to evacuate Haiti safely via helicopter in the dark and early hours of Tuesday morning," a Have Faith Instagram post from last week reads.

Mills rescued 255 Americans out of Israel after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, as well as another evacuation of U.S. citizens from Afghanistan when the military pulled out in 2021.

Albom wrote in his Detroit Free Press column that Mills arranged an escape from a secret location in the dead of night.

"Go! Go! Go!" Mills ordered the evacuees, as they piled into a helicopter and prayed they wouldn't be fired at by the gangs in control.

"Foreigners and volunteers are forced to find their own way out, with no help from their embassies," Albom wrote. "And trapped in the middle are innocent civilians, millions of them, including 60 precious children at the orphanage I have operated for the last 14 years."

A second Mills mission over the weekend returned 13 others.

Albom's message about rescuing more Americans than the Biden administration comes after a U.S. government-chartered flight out of Haiti that brought more than 30 Americans with U.S. passports from Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, to Miami on Sunday.

Flights into Port-au-Prince have been canceled.

So far the Biden administration has been "all hat, no action."

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